Sox Fans Rejoice! Manny’s Back! In OAKLAND! Man-Ram in Fenway for Fireworks!
By Earl Nash
The Oakland A’s can order that tent now. And Manny Fans in Boston can order those July 4th tickets!
[* Circus performances have been added for the night games on July 2nd and 3rd!]
The circus will be coming to town in Oakland on June 4th! Watch the Mighty Man-Ram riding the A’s mascot white elephant with Yoenis Cespedes and, walking behind with shovels, their Oakland team mates, wearing “HELLO…My Name Is” name tags.
Manny Ramirez told ESPN’s Pedro Gomez on Monday that he has agreed to a deal with the Oakland Athletics.
Sources tell Gomez the deal is worth about $500,000. Ramirez is obligated to serve a 50-game suspension without pay before beginning play for the A’s due to violating baseball’s drug policy for the second time. With no rain-outs, the first game M. Ramirez would be eligible to play is June 2 at Kansas City.
At baseball’s winter meetings in December, it was announced that Ramirez had applied for reinstatement. He had his suspension for a second failed drug test cut to 50 because he sat out nearly all of last season.
MLB had announced his retirement April 8, saying he was notified “of an issue” under the drug program.
Ramirez, who will be 40 on May 30, ranks 14th on the career list with 555 home runs. He went 1 for 17 (.059) in five games last season for Tampa Bay, which had signed him to a one-year deal worth $2.02 million.
This would be the 20th major league season for Ramirez, a career .312 hitter with 1,831 RBIs. Oakland, which traded away its top three pitchers this offseason including two starters, could use a power bat in the middle of the order in a tough AL West that already has seen the key additions of Albert Pujols on the Los Angeles Angels and star Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish for the two-time reigning AL champion Texas Rangers.
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