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July 29, 2012

Transaction Analysis

Kottaras to Oakland

by R.J. Anderson

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Acquired C-L George Kottaras from the Brewers for RHP Fautino De Los Santos. [7/29]

The Athletics are making a second-half run, and Billy Beane just acquired a player who majored in on-base percentage and minored in isolated power. No, it isn’t 2002, though the addition of Kottaras does feel ripped from the pages of Moneyball. Kottaras is a 29-year-old with a .409 on-base percentage this season and three organizations in his rearview mirror, due in part to his inability to hit for average or field his position well. Kottaras is an undervalued asset in a world ruled by irrationality—that is to say, he’s Canadian-born.

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