This fine night card is a definite candidate for the night card binder, for a lot of reasons. One of them is that Sean Doolittle is that very rare case in an Oakland A's uniform: He's managed to stay with the team for five years. I don't know how he's escaped the spinning revolving trade door outside the A's front office. I might be wrong, but I think he and Eric Sogard have lasted the longest from the current team, and Sogard has been disabled the whole year. (Coco Crisp was there for six years before he was traded to the Indians last month). Why here Doolittle is in the 2013 set after his first season with Oakland. I thought I'd do a little experiment and see where the rest of the A's from this set are. Brett Anderson: With the Dodgers (disabled) Other teams since the A's: Rockies Grant Balfour: Retired Other teams since the A's: Rays Bartolo Colon: Mets Other teams since the A's: none Ryan Cook: Mariner...
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