A's Should Re-Sign Kennedy

Id vote for the latter

You want to buy low and sell high, not buy high. If the A’s could a prospect or two for Kennedy, they should by all means do it. He doesn’t have a future with the A’s, as they don’t figure to be competitive in the next couple of years. A team like the Cardinals who actually could use some help at 2B and 3B would love a versatile infielder like Kennedy.

but not as a “go to” player. Rather, as the anuual Justice, Gant, Karros, Giambi “veteran influence” — unlike those guys, Kennedy has not had a great career, but he is a rare player on this team who I see playing smart, hard, and leading by example, day in and day out. Just look at his comment to Gio in the clubhouse on Monday night — that’s important stuff.

Don’t pay him starter money and don’t start him every day, but sign him to be Crosby’s replacement.

I would assign Chavez to the A’s root-beer float day and that is about it!!!

Resign (no hyphen) = quit
Re-sign (hyphen) = extend his contract

Can’t be much worse than Hannahan as a utility infielder. Maybe a one-year extension.

Sign him. See what happens. If it doesn’t go well, call up a prospect, see how they fare at third. If they don’t do well, we’ll still give them a chance. After all, it takes over three years for a prospect to get used to the bigs.

The Mets are exactly the kind of desperate team that would talk themselves into overpaying for Kennedy. Now, I love the guy. I love love love the spark he’s inserted in our team and the veteran presence he lends. Him grabbing Gio out of the locker room and making him stick out his crap performance on the bench was great intangible stuff I’d like to see more of on this team.

But seriously, Kennedy is compiling a tOPS of 47 against LHP in almost 100 ABs this year. That’s pretty frickin awful. His overall line will regress. Let’s get what we can get now. In the offseason, he could be a low-cost alternative to a Marco Scutaro utility-man signing.

Inexpensive, non-complainer, reliable bat, reliable glove, healthy, can play all over the field….duh

depending on the price, of course. But then, veteran player with that vaunted versatility (versatility got Willie Bloomquist his money) who just had a career year and wont’ cost a draft pick = get ready for someone to overpay.

I’ll try to trade him, since his price monetarily is attractive in this economy. I’m calling up Jim Hendry, Brian Sabean, and Bill Smith, calmly consoling them that their other, probably more pressing team needs (power bat, bullpen, etc.) aren’t as important and kindly talking up Kennedy to them (this is along with calling Omar Minaya about Holliday/OCab/Kennedy). If something bites that’s decent, go for it.

Just for everything that doesn’t show up in the stats.
I know some are not into it, but he always has solid ABs, and he drives pitchers crazy when he’s over at 1st. He’s a true professional and seems like a great guy in the clubhouse from everything I’ve seen.
But I’m not expecting much more than .270/.340/.390
But that’s more than acceptable. I really wouldn’t mind seeing him start the season at 3rd, with the hope that Cardenas will be ready at some point during the season/ wait that bit of time so that Cardenas is under team control for an extra year…

I wouldn’t be opposed to it, but you definitely only do it on a discount. With Hanny gone and Crosby off the books, the A’s really don’t have anything at 3B. I’d like to see the A’s go out and sign Figgins or trade for somebody. If they did that, you’d have Chone at 3B and Ellis at 2B and Kennedy backing both of them up. That sounds alright.

and platoon other positions the other 50% of the time

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If the A’s offered Kennedy a 2 year/2.5 million dollar contract to be the teams utility player I think he would take it in a heartbeat.

If I’m wrong, and Kennedy does want that deal, then I think it would be a great signing. But my guess is that he’ll be looking for more $$$. Then, even if he deserves it, you get to the point where the A’s just can’t be paying their utility players that much.

of Kennedy’s personality get the better of them. Granted, hes having a good year. That makes him a bargain at the price he is now. But the biggest mistake GM’s usually make is to be so enamored by their own brilliant pickups they sign them for well over they are worth. Look at Jim Bowden, Grabs Dmitri Young off the scrap heap, has a great year, then signs Young to an extension that blows up in his face. Does the same with Ron Belliard. So, get a good year out of Kennedy, but understand enough to let someone else pay for his big year. I mean, this is a guy who just a couple of years ago hit .216.