Ken Rosenthal is reporting that the Giants have signed Cody Ross to a $6.3 million contract, avoiding arbitration.
This isn't anywhere else on the internet that I can find, so I don't have any more details.
Is the Cody Ross of the playoffs worth $6.3m? Definitely.
Is the Cody Ross of late August who misplayed flyballs and had a low-.300's obp worth $6.3m?
No.
But this is about what we expected, money-wise. I'm banking on August being the fluke and October being Ross approaching his potential. Maybe we'll get lucky and Roy Halladay will pitch against us 49 times, which would mean Cody would hit 98 homeruns. That would be a record or something.
The best news is that we avoided an arbitration hearing. Cody would have sat there and watched that late August fly ball over and over again as Brian Sabean used a power-point presentation to explain just how completely un-freaking-believable it was that a professional baseball player could choke away a win during a pennant race with such brazen stupidity. Sabean would have sat there with a dumb grin on his face and then Ross would have said: "Roy Oswalt. Derek Lowe. Roy Halladay. Twice." And the arbitration mediator would have awarded him $57.9 million.
Good work, Sabes.
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