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This is good to see. I’m sure a lot of people would have preferred to see Gray or Donaldson extended first, but Doolittle deserves it as much as anyone, in my opinion. Even if he remains a setup man most of his career, he’s a really good asset.
JoshReddicksWalkupSong
Gray only has 13 major league starts, but yeah, locking those guys up would be nice.
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If they can get Gray on a deal that’s similar to the one Anderson signed, or Donaldson on a deal that’s similar to the one Cahill signed, I’d love to see it.
Snoochies8
I’m probably in the minority of not wanting to extend Donaldson. When he’s eligible for free agency, he’ll be a year younger than when Doolittle is now eligible (assuming the A’s pick up both his options). He’ll be just at the end of his assumed peak years
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For me, it depends on what his asking price is. If they can sign him through his 4 arbitration years for around $35M, with a club option or two, I wouldn’t mind seeing it. But if he’s wanting $50-60M guaranteed, then I agree they should hold off.
liberalconservative
After Barton’s only good year there was talk of extending him. Moss and Donaldson would be good extensions. Cespedes has asked about a extension but that would be very costly.
xristosdomini
It’s really weird to see Billy Beane suddenly putting a bunch of money into the bullpen…
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Actually, the Johnson/Gregerson/O’Flaherty additions weren’t surprising to me. After they had replaced Colon and Young with Kazmir and Gentry, they still had some payroll space left, and bolstering the bullpen for 2014 was all they could do without having to hamstring themselves long-term.
JoshReddicksWalkupSong
That’s quite a long extension for a reliever. Great story for him to switch to pitching only a couple years ago to earn this extension. Looking forward to watching him pitch for the next five years.
I’d also be happy with a Gray, Donaldson and Norris extension.
Eric K
Best news I’ve heard all day
Mike R
Can rack up saves now without a’s worrying about being priced out
garylanglais
I was thinking the same thing. While I don’t agree with giving any RP a 5-year deal, if he’s the closer starting next season (or this season), they have cost control through his Arb years which can be heavily influenced by saves
Guest 3712
With 7 blown saves in his first 11 opportunities, that may not be something they were gonna have to worry about, anyway. He’s a very good reliever, who’s worth locking up, but he may always be best suited as a set-up man.
disadvantage 2
In fairness, most of his blown saves came by allowing a run in the 7th inning to blow his chances of a 3 inning save, which wasn’t going to happen in the first place.
Jesse Rodriguez
DOOOOO, great extension
disgruntledreader
Anyone seriously think there are better than 50-50 odds he’ll be a big leaguer in the year 2020?
Caleb Y.
A reliever? I think we’ve reached “peak extension”.
DarthMurph
Arbitration really jacks up the price of relievers, though unless Doolittle becomes the closer he wouldn’t have been looking at a massive payday. Could be a really good deal. It also might not.
Ace McCloud®
My boy ! Love this deal, love Doolittle..let’s go Oakland.
agureghian
Now Gray’s turn.
How about a contract similar to Rays’ Archer.
6 years 25.5m
LittleOtterPaws
I guess you could say the A’s are hoping he turns into Sean Doalot.
LittleOtterPaws
I’m sorry.