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Athletics ink Frank Thomas
Published 4/24/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Athletics ink Frank Thomas The Oakland Athletics signed former All-Star Frank Thomas on Thursday. Thomas was in the second year of a two-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays and was batting just .167 with three home runs and 11 runs batted in when he was released by the Blue Jays on April 20. ...

Big Frank
Published 4/24/2008 by Voros at Baseball Digest Daily
I'm happy to see that it looks like Frank Thomas has had a soft landing after being released by the Blue Jays. The Oakland A's have signed the Big Hurt presumably to a league minimum deal (unless a team offered more money than the Blue Jays contract, the amount of money Thomas makes is the same). With Travis Buck hitting the disabled list (again), this means that Jack Cust may have to have to dig through his cassette tape collection and High School lettermen's jackets in storage to find his glove. Oil it up before use Jack. (Yes I know he's been playing left a little this year. I was assuming he was using a loaner from Travis Buck). On a personal note, growing up in Chicago it's ...