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johnsilver
Braden has FA ahead of him in 2013 that could be a motivating factor and regardless. Oakland could just off the same 3.5m salary and probably retain him, hope he pitches average and move him at the deadline next July.
Looking to FA doesn’t seem to motivate all FA of course, Matsuzaka has laid back on the DL all season and Braden has a more severe injury to recoup from. i would think 3.5m is a solid gamble.
Iconoclast17
They won’t offer $3.5 million to Braden. It’s not clear he will even be able to resume his career. Non-tender is the way to go as others have suggested.
McCarthy is a better pitcher than Braden, but he’s pretty risky too. I see him leaving (or the A’s letting him leave) for greener pastures elsewhere.
Mike Nicolich
He should have been non-tendered last year. The A’s are paying him $3.5 million to not pitch this year and that is too much for a small market club.
jb226 2
Honestly, the Cubs should be in on pretty much any starting pitcher with some upside who gets non-tendered (Braden? Stauffer?) They have nothing really ready in the minors, they already got rid of Maholm and Dempster and may very well get rid of Garza (though probably midseason unfortunately). Take some risks on guys like this and try to flip them at the deadline for some pitching prospects.
jpkinney7
He gone.
2012 A’s Starting Rotation: Anderson, Parker, Straily, Griffin, Milone (very similar to Braden)
Love Dallas Braden, but use the extra money (and the Suzuki $$$) to Sign Brandon McCarthy to a 3 Year Deal.
melonis_rex
The A’s organizational strength is developing pitchers.
Signing an injury prone pitcher (he’s had one full season in MLB) to a 3 year deal after missing half the season with injury, is already a questionable move for any team, let alone a team who’s organizational strength is pitcher development and depth.
Unless the AAV was really low, but McCarthy has no reason to take such a deal (better off going 1 year with a higher AAV, which is reasonable).
johnsilver
Lot of A’s people here think he is gone, but I can think of 2 GM’s who will be stumbling over themselves to sign him to a incentive laden deal:
Theo Epstein and Dan Duquette
both love these types and were never afraid to sign injured pitchers looking to make a comeback. Duquette hit the jackpot with Saberhagen. Sighed him in ’97 after missing all of the ’96 season with yet another shoulder injury and he missed most of that year, but was his superb self again in ’98 and part of ’99 before finally getting hurt yet again.
I got a feeling the SP starved orioles will smell this one out and if braden wants to win? he will choose the orioles.
jpkinney7
Can you Non-Tender, and re-sign a player? If so, I could actually see the A’s keeping him, and signing him to that “incentive laden” deal you speak of. Braden loves the A’s. A’s Fans love Dallas Braden. The 209 is strong.
johnsilver
Oh yeah. it is done sometimes, especially when a player likes a town and wants to come back and both sides agree the previous salary was high/player finds out the salary was more than can be obtained in the open market.
melonis_rex
yep. and braden’s known to be a great clubhouse presence/leader, and oakland is an awesome place for a pitcher to rebuild his career. And Braden’s from the area anyway.
I see him being nontendered, but resigning for an incentive laden deal with Oakland.
johnsilver
With you thinking he resigns in Oakland 1st. if he doesn’t? it’s orioles/Duquette and Epstein and the cubs courting him hard I should have said Rex.
Incentive laden deals for this type work best, not major dollars like unfortunately Harden got and we all admit it was a mistake, Epstein learned his lesson with Smoltz also.
I think braden has more upside than both with his lesser mileage on his arm altogether, so that incentive laden deal idea we are suggesting could get blown out of the water if one of those 3 (or another outside owner) somehow guaranteed him money.
I would hope Braden saw the advantages of pitching at Oakland also as you suggested also..
Excellent post by yourself.. hit every target well.
Scott K. Leathers
I was at the Braden perfect game, and have seen many of his starts. He can really keep a team in the game, even when he doesn’t have his best stuff. And his changeup is one of the best in MLB, generating many swings-and-misses. He’s similar, just in terms of his injury and his changeup, to Johan Santana. Obviously Johan has had mixed results this season, but there’s reason to believe Braden, if the forthcoming surgery is just exploratory (them looking for loose cartilage, etc.), WILL rebound and contribute a lot in 2013. Yes, the A’s should non-tender him, though, since there’s like 8 starting pitchers, not even counting Braden or Tyson Ross. (Parker, Milone, Griffin, Anderson, Colon, Straily, McCarthy, Blackley)
melonis_rex
Colon and McCarthy are free agents after the season, although I could see one or both of them back next year (Colon’s age is going to stop him from getting another multi year deal, and McCarthy’s injury history is a wild card).
Having only six serviceable starters, especially when one will be less than half a season removed from TJS and two have less than half a season of MLB experience is a recipe for disaster (or Tyson Ross and Graham Godfrey making lots of starts, which is also bad). The A’s used about 10 different SP this season.
Iconoclast17
Beane always finds some veteran arm(s) in the off-season. I think Colon and McCarthy are both gone. He’ll bring in somebody else, Rex. He always does.
aemoreira81
Depending on the internal budget of the A’s…if Braden will be available for spring training, and I were Beane, I’d file for arbitration at the same figure he made this year. However, the Yankees, with a bigger budget, after the 2009 season, chose to not tender Chien-Ming Wang a contract. This could go either way.