The Grady Sizemore watch
2010-2011 with Cleveland (roughly): .220 / .280 / .370
2014 so far with Boston: .208 / .275 / .361
As others have mentioned, a series of $250,000 bonuses start kicking in with 60 (90, 120, 150) days on the active roster and 225 plate appearances (and each 25 plate appearances thereafter up to 500). I would think that his numbers would need to be significantly better over the next month in order to justify paying any those bonuses. That is especially true given that defensively he's really just a left fielder at this point, and they have no marginal cost of giving those at bats to Carp or Nava.
The key other determinant of how long to give Grady to perform at a reasonable offensive level for a left fielder: Daniel Nava at Pawtucket
5-15, 2B, HR, 3 BB, 4 K's
I don't imagine it will take long for him to amass 50 plate appearances with similar results, at which point it will be silly to leave him in the minors and give left-field at bats to the sub-700 OPS that seems to be Grady's new normal.
2010-2011 with Cleveland (roughly): .220 / .280 / .370
2014 so far with Boston: .208 / .275 / .361
As others have mentioned, a series of $250,000 bonuses start kicking in with 60 (90, 120, 150) days on the active roster and 225 plate appearances (and each 25 plate appearances thereafter up to 500). I would think that his numbers would need to be significantly better over the next month in order to justify paying any those bonuses. That is especially true given that defensively he's really just a left fielder at this point, and they have no marginal cost of giving those at bats to Carp or Nava.
The key other determinant of how long to give Grady to perform at a reasonable offensive level for a left fielder: Daniel Nava at Pawtucket
5-15, 2B, HR, 3 BB, 4 K's
I don't imagine it will take long for him to amass 50 plate appearances with similar results, at which point it will be silly to leave him in the minors and give left-field at bats to the sub-700 OPS that seems to be Grady's new normal.