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Wednesday, February 22
9:31AM

SF Examiner: Oakland A's GM Billy Beane an expert at shaking things up

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By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

The A’s? “Team Irrelevant”? Grabbing supposedly the best Cuban baseball playing defector available, Yoenis Cespedes, for $36 million? Then signing Manny Ramirez? The A’s?

Welcome to the New World of Moneyball. No longer when a journalist asks GM Billy Beane whether we’ll recognize any members of the A’s will he be able to respond, if tongue in cheek, “Do you ever?”

Read the full story here.

Copyright 2012 SF Newspaper Company

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