A's reach terms with Cuban star on four-year deal
- Published: 14/02/2012 at 03:32 AM
- Online news: Sports
Cuban slugger Yoenis Cespedes has agreed to a four-year deal worth $36 million with the Oakland A's, the largest US deal ever for a Cuban, Major League Baseball's website reported on Monday.
A general view of an Oakland Athletics game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in 2011. Cuban slugger Yoenis Cespedes has agreed to a four-year deal worth $36 million with the Oakland A's, the largest US deal ever for a Cuban, Major League Baseball's website reported on Monday.
Cespedes, a 26-year-old outfielder who spent eight seasons with Granma of the Cuban league before defecting from his Caribbean Communist homeland last year, was an all-tournament player for Cuba in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
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