Athletics Sign Grant Green

Somewhere scribbs is smiling.

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

Somewhere scribbs is smiling.

Posted by: YanksFanSince78 | August 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM

He's a Cub fan. You mean melonis rex?

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.

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.