Oakland A’s: Coco Crisp Providing Veteran Leadership at Right Time

With a relatively young ball club, you need a veteran presence to stabilize the team and keep things together.

To an extent, this would be the responsibility of the manager. Oakland A's skipper Bob Melvin has done a nice job of keeping a young team debilitated with injuries stay right in the thick of things in the American League.

What the A's need is a leadership presence on the field. Veteran outfielder Coco Crisp was supposed to be that guy.

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Although there was some question about Crisp's return to Oakland in 2012 during the offseason, ultimately A's general manager Billy Beane decided to offer him a ...

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