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Athletics non-tendered LHP Mark Redman. Redman was worth at least $3 million last season, but the A's didn't want to pay him that kind of money for 2004. Some team will probably give him $6 million over two years.

 

http://www.rotoworld.com/display1.asp?spor...yers&x=6285&y=0

WHOA

do it Beinfest.....it would be GENIUS

Beinfest... make your move... :shifty

Beinfest officially is a pimp. There is no question of it now.

Beinfest officially is a pimp. There is no question of it now.

No, he is currently at "playa" status.

 

He moves up to "pimp" when he actually re-signs Mark.

other Non Tenderres:

 

Orioles non-tendered RHP Jason Johnson. Johnson could have earned close to $4 million in arbitration, so the Orioles made the right move here. However, Johnson will be a popular free agent. He should become one of the Rangers' top targets and the Giants could use him as their fourth starter.

 

 

Orioles non-tendered LHP Damian Moss. There should be several small-market teams interested in taking a chance on Moss. Our guess is that he'll land in Milwaukee.

 

/rotoworld

Beinfest officially is a pimp. There is no question of it now.

No, he is currently at "playa" status.

 

He moves up to "pimp" when he actually re-signs Mark. And when he signs Vlad he'll just be immortal.

Go get him, Admin.

the best part would be, we could use the A's own money to sign him if we take the option for cash instead of PTBNL....hahahaha, that would be awesome.

Bring Red Back!

is it our choice?

is it our choice?

interesting...i suppose i assumed it was, but you're correct, it could be theirs.

No. If Redman was Non Tendered, The A's would send Cash..

 

If signed we would get a prospect.

I wonder how much cash. Not much I'd think.

I believe we get cash now, but I wonder how much :mischief2

I really doubt that the cash is anything significant.

i'd say 500k.

i'd say 500k.

thats a lot

 

so i doubt it

i can't believe the A's didn't offer him arbitration. what's the most he could have gotten? 3.5 mill?

i'd say 500k.

Oddly enough, I'd be extreamely happy with $500K.

 

Admin Beinfest would be a geniusif he pulled this off:

 

He gets a young, talented, and cheap reliever, as well as mark Redman for $2.5 Million instead of the estimated $3 Million (he signs for $3 mill, but because of the money, it's actually less).

I really doubt it's anything close to $500K

We could get anywhere between 300,000-500,000. I'm sure they agreed upon the total before the actual non-tender deadline.

I dunno if this would be legal...but what if Beinfest sat down with Redman and said that if he accepted a trade to Oakland and was then nontendered, he could sign with the Marlins for more than he would get in arby?

 

I am not paranoid, it just makes sense to me that this could have happened.

I wonder how much cash. Not much I'd think.

If I were forced to take an educated guess it would be somewhere between half to all of Neu's salary ($150,00-$300,000). Just a guess... :mischief2