Mar 16, 2012 | Inside Bay Area
Oakland A's notebook: Ailing reliever Joey Devine still hopes to make Tokyo trip
A biceps injury to reliever Joey Devine might create a bullpen opening for the A's season-opening trip to Japan.
Hayward native Erick Threets returns - to the A's
Threets, who grew up in Hayward and Livermore, was such a big A's fan, he said, that "after the A's called, I didn't even want to talk to the Giants." But it was the Giants who drafted the left-handed pitcher in the seventh round out of Granada High School, and he broke into the bigs with them in 2007.
The first is as someone who thinks the Giants will blow past their budget from 2011.
Chicago White Sox reliever Erick Threets is out for the season with a torn ulnar collateral ligament
Rookie Chris Sale is now the last left-hander standing in the White Sox bullpen after Erick Threets was lost for the season.
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