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The Athletics signed 13th overall pick Grant Green, according to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. Green received a $2.75MM bonus, says Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus. Green, a shortstop out of USC, is a Scott Boras client. Click here for MLB.com's scouting report.
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The A's are doing a nice job of stockpiling middle Infielders lately with Cardenas, Weeks, and now Green. Maybe they can put Cardenas at 2B, Weeks at SS, and Green at 3B.
Posted by: Teixiera/ARod FTW | August 17, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Somewhere scribbs is smiling.
Posted by: YanksFanSince78 | August 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM
weeks is a 2B... never really considered SS. it'll be more like Green at SS, Cardenas at 2B and Weeks in CF.
Posted by: CGon28 | August 17, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Sweet. The A's also have top 3B prospect Brett Wallace and Top 1B prospects Sean Doolittle, Daric Barton, and an absolute stud in 1B Chris Carter
Posted by: Baseball_Today | August 17, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Imagine if the A's farm system still included Brett Anderson, Trevor Cahill and Vin Mazzaro. It would be the best system in all of baseball (according to me at least haha).
God I love baseball.
Posted by: CGon28 | August 17, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Somewhere scribbs is smiling.
Posted by: YanksFanSince78 | August 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM
He's a Cub fan. You mean melonis rex?
Posted by: jdub | August 17, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Totally premature, unrealistically optimistic 2012 lineup projection time!
C Stassi
1B Carter
2B Cardenas
3B Wallace
SS Green
LF Buckingham?
CF Upton (hehe)
RF Doolittle/Brown?
Either way you slice it, that is a lot of upside in the future infield...
Posted by: dtownmbrown | August 18, 2009 at 04:14 AM
Yeah I might be a Cub fan, but you still gotta love this.
The A's came into the season with questions all over the infield long term, and with the additions of Green, Wallace and Stassi, along with Barton, Carter, Weeks, Doolittle and Cardenas, you'd have to argue that the IF organizational hole is near non-existent at this point. All they need now is a star quality outfielder to join Sweeney, Hairston, Cunningham and Buck, and they're pretty much set.
In the last two months, you couldn't do much better to build for the next couple years than Beane has done by dumping Holliday, Giambi and Cabrera while adding major young talent to the system.
This doesn't excite me nearly as much as the Matzek signing though. Jimenez, Matzek, Morales, Chacin, Hammel, Friedrich, Rogers, Brothers. Simply awesome pitching talent.
Posted by: scribbletone | August 18, 2009 at 06:19 AM
Unreasonably optimistic, but better 2012 projected lineup.
2B Jemile Weeks
3B Adrian Cardenas
1B Brett Wallace
DH Chris Carter
CF Corey Brown
RF Grant Desme
LF Sean Doolittle
C1 Max Stassi
SS Grant Green
Thats a pretty good lineup, with 5 players with 30+ HR Potential.
Posted by: Shane H | August 18, 2009 at 07:18 AM
I would think that the A's would be able to improve upon a Desme/Brown/Doolittle outfield
by then, with Hairston/Sweeney/Cunningham already under control, and your lineup doesn't even factor in Daric Barton and/or any other possible roster moves.
The A's still have work to do, there are questions about Carter's bat and he has no defensive value, Green's ability to stay at shortstop, and the future of the entire outfield is cloudy. Obviously, your lineup has some optimism in it as you pointed out.
Posted by: scribbletone | August 18, 2009 at 09:31 AM