BEAT STREET

The A's avoided arbitration with Huston Street and signed their closer (for now) to a one-year $3.3 Million deal. The A's still have Joe Blanton and Chad Gaudin on their way to the arbitration abattoir. Usually there is an arbitration scoreboard on ESPN.com or elsewhere but it has not yet been located. The general feeling would be that Street would have lost his case. Injury plus blown saves does not equate a good arbitration case.


If some of you were hoping that Eric Chavez would be traded soon, lessen that hope. Joe Crede signed a one year $5.5 Million deal with the Chicago White Sox despite knowing that Josh Fields will be the starter at 3rd base this season. It will be interesting to see if Crede is sent somewhere like Texas or L'Angels.