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Butler Frees Up A’s To Trade For Needed Outfield He(alth)lp

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Charles Sollars via Flickr

Charles Sollars via Flickr

Only the Seattle Mariners had worse output among American League teams from their designated hitters than the Oakland Athletics in 2014.

A’s fans say the team took a big step toward rectifying that with the off-season signing of former Kansas City Royal Billy Butler. Butler is a .295 career hitter, but it also turns out, he can play a very serviceable first base -.992 fielding percentage in 394 career games. That’s only .002 below the league average for his career. Stew on that for a second.

How did the A’s get him? 2014 was a down year for Butler and Kansas City is as concerned about small-market finances as the A’s. Losing Butler means losing $12.5 ...


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