Joel Sherman tosses out $4 million as the kind of dollar figure Stephen Drew might have to settle for. If that's true, then I'd very much desire the A's to be the team that gives him that $4 million (or even that the A's be the team that calls him and says "we're offering $5.5 right now, take it or else we'll move on and you'll wind up getting $4 somewhere else later") because by our best understandings, $4 million (or $5.5 million) is well under what teams are paying for a win above replacement on the free-agent market these days, and as utterly crummy as Drew was in 2014 with the bat, he's probably still an adequate fielder and I would bet he can put up something like a 90 OPS+, and as unexciting as all that is, it's not clear what the A's other options are going to be.