Haven’t heard much news on the A’s progress toward signing Grant Green and Max Stassi, so I did a little snooping.
Update: Kevin Goldstein reports that the A’s have agreed to terms with Max Stassi. It was on Twitter, so it must be true.
August 14:
“We’ve talked to the agents for Green and Stassi and Krol just about every day this week,” assistant general manager David Forst said. “There’s still a gap on each guy, but no reason not to be confident we’ll get something done by Monday.”
Negotiations with Green and agent Scott Boras weren’t expected to be easy. The recommended salary slot for this year’s 13th pick is $1,656,000, according to Baseball America. Major League Baseball establishes those limits but has no authority to enforce them, and several lower-round selections have already landed above-slot bonuses.
Many considered Stassi a first-round talent, but concerns about his signability played a part in him dropping to the fourth round.
Stassi’s father told the Marysville Appeal-Democrat earlier this week that the A’s made what was comparable to a first-round offer, and that Stassi was leaning toward going pro.
This appears to be the last report filed about the process.
It sounds like the A’s should get these guys signed. I’ll pretty disappointed if we don’t get Stassi, and I’ll be very upset if we don’t get Green.
Also, did you see the size of Geren’s balls as he got himself thrown out of the game yesterday? Holy crap. His locus of control was fuckin’ sweet. Pretty much willed MaEl’s liner over the fence in the bottom of the ninth. If only the A’s had listened to the recommendations of their consulting phrenologists in April, this team could be in contention. Next year I hope the A’s perform trepanations genital mutilations on all their players during spring training.
The Locusts of Control would be a good band name.
The Day of the Locus of Control would be a good name for a novel about the psychology of Hollywood.
The Low Kiss of Control would be a good title for a fetish porn flick.
Pitchers keeping the ball below Jack’s happy zone: the low Cust of control
(that can also describe Jack’s salary situation until next year)
Lo, Kissoff Control! could be the long-awaited sequel to Dr. Strangelove.
A certain Bay Area filmmaker is known for his Draconian measures to embargo still images before release: Lucas tif control
When you use the technique to start the season over: Locus of ctrl-alt-del
Christ, what a Stassi-Krol
Rajai Davis has a .801 OPS.
Mark Ellis OPS+: 103
Nomar’s OPS (.666) is higher than Bobby Crosby’s (.665)
Mike Wuertz has only gotten more awesome
The scatter plots are not the worlds best proof of his point.
Nomar’s OPS is lower than Jason Giambi’s (.697) and Nomar is at least as limited defensively (last played 1B July 23, last played 3B April 28).
pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease
And: does that mean they’re considering considering it?
Considerately, at least.
On the verge.
So I guess this person is in favor of a Brazilian-style plan.
I think this must be Beane getting rid of some now-unnecessary equipment.
Mark Kotsay, first baseman
Saint … Bavoon?
Sweet Ba’al Almighty, I didn’t even think about this. Talk about worse than doing nothing at all …
It’s a good point. I’m also not certain that the public option is actually dead.
Yeah, 8-ball says signs are unclear.
Not even touching his actual argument, what the hell’s up with the positive “anymore” usage
these daysanymore?A’s and Stassi agree to terms?
$1.5 Million bonus
Sweet!
Jeez. OK, since I’m usually the cop-basher hereabouts, here’s a cheer for some genuinely positive work.
Fuckin’-a, is this a stupid, stupid, stupid name/brand for this initiative/organization.
Meh.
If every slogan had to be stress tested against potential opposition snark there’d be nothing left. In some ways coopting things like that makes it harder for the anti- side.
I’m not talking potential oppo snark — I’m talking a fundamental and disturbing misapprehension of the program’s essence.
It sounds like a battered-spouse program. The types of people involved with this program should know better.
Color me unconcerned.
Person A: What do you think of local personality P?
Person B: She’s awesome. She should run for office.
“Hi, Ms. Big Liberal Fundraiser person. I’m calling to ask you to cut a check to …”
“… the campaign of Ms. P, who we identified via our ‘She Should Run’ program.”
Because $25 is way too fuckin’ much for underwear?
1. As overpriced “necessities” go, those aren’t really all that overpriced (especially for the types who would consider buying such a thing)
2. Again, who the fuck are all these bloggers at sfgate?
1. I’m sorry, but my underwear price point is lower than that. Then again, I hate both forests and social causes, too.
2. You didn’t fill out an application?
2. Oo, big smartypants-looking-down-on-menial-shitty-laborers FAIL: you simply can’t misspell “Qantas” in such a context.
ooh burn!
Yeah, I found that much more disturbing than funny.
$20-$27 is actually right in the designer boxer price range.
I’d much rather people buy from PACT than, say, Burberry.
Reduce (commando!), Reuse (don’t throw away the ones worn out in the seat!), Recycle (Goodwill!)
I’m not buying/wearing used underwear Monkey, regardless of how Earth-friendly it may be. The days of me wearing someone else’s underwear are over. And never without getting paid.
holy crap, I’m missing out on a huge world of overpriced undergarments. I had no idea.
{snerk}
“holy crap”
2. Also: dollars to donuts whoever wrote that also sits on their ass all day long
uh…that’s like the definition of snark.
Given the the glut of ill-fitting undies in the marketplace, I’m not sold on how “fail proof” buying underwear on the internet would be.
Tomko up
No corresponding move yet
UC to borrow money, loan it to state:
Wow.
This is a sign of the apocalypse.
I don’t like articles about loans. If you could refrain from posting these in the future, I depreciate it.
IC with the pun-n-run!
Slightly off topic, but no surprise that this article only mentions the rise in student fees and the faculty furloughs. Fails to mention the staff that are taking the furlough pay cuts right alongside the faculty. Guess our sacrifices are not as newsworthy.
It’s even less of a surprise when you consider that the source is an academic publication.
And, of course, anyone working on a federal grant legally can’t have (the federal portion of) their salary cut.
Ah, yes.
Public schools: lender of last resort.
or
Next stop: IMF.
Dana Eveland got screwed.
Of course, the reflexive reaction to this article is “OMG robot umps now!” Actually, though, I think it supports my view (shocker, I know) that switching to robot umps would be an unmitigated disaster. If 21.7% of called strikes suddenly became balls, pitchers would riot. Similarly, if all those balls in the corner of the strike zone were called strikes, hitters would riot. In short, there would be much rioting and little rejoicing.
Whoa whoa whoa (emphasis added):
See, e.g., width of a baseball. The plate is 17 inches across, and a ball doesn’t need to be entirely inside it. Theoretically, a ball recorded at 1.5 inches outside (center of mass) is nicking the edge.
Ah.
Meh. Cunningham sent down.
Oh Noodles, we hardly knew thee.
Way worse than a Nomar DFA
Meh, not really. Cunningham wasn’t going to get any real playing time — no one who takes that roster spot will. Nomar isn’t “blocking” anyone.
National League baseball is like the NFL to me.
Mark Reynolds hit his 38th homer of the year today. Wait, who the hell is Mark Reynolds?
This is just chock-full of priceless details.
I read that as “Military Euthanists”
This explains how Rajai has managed to stay on the roster all season:
The sixth comment made me laugh:
Did I miss a link about MaEl being named AL Player of the Week?
Answer: It’s not that I missed a link, it’s that everyone just doesn’t care.
I didn’t know this:
No, I do care! I really do care! I got an email about it from the A’s and I was going to post a link and everything. But then I forgot!
I understand. I guess Mark isn’t drafty or statty enough. {sniff}
I care about the PotW only slightly more than I care about the ASG and postseason awards.
A’s sign Ian Krol, according to Fosse and Kuiper.
Yay!
Schweet
Btw… this is how the ML deals work.