Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – The Oakland Athletics have exercised the 2014 contract options for outfielder Coco Crisp and pitcher Brett Anderson.<\/p>\n
Crisp batted .261 with a career-high 22 homers, 66 runs batted in and 21 stolen bases in 131 games this past season. He also set career bests with 93 runs scored and 61 walks.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old veteran has spent the past four seasons in Oakland after also playing for Cleveland, Boston and Kansas City in a 12-year career. He is a .272 hitter in 1,294 career games.<\/p>\n
Anderson was Oakland’s opening day starter this past season, but spent four months on the disabled list with a stress fracture in his foot and finished the campaign in the bullpen. He was 1-4 with a 6.04 ERA in 16 games, including five starts, in 2013.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old lefty has spent his entire five-year career with the Athletics and has a mark of 26-29 with a 3.81 ERA in 84 games, 73 of which have been starts.<\/p>\n
Oakland also declined contract options on catcher Kurt Suzuki and outfielder Chris Young.<\/p>\n
Suzuki rejoined the Athletics in an August trade with Washington and batted .303 with two homers in 15 games for Oakland. The 30-year-old veteran spent his first five-plus seasons with the Athletics before being dealt to the Nationals in August 2012.<\/p>\n
Young hit .200 with 12 homers and 40 RBI in 107 games for Oakland this past season. He was acquired from Arizona last October in a deal that sent Cliff Pennington and Yordy Cabrera to the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – The Oakland Athletics have exercised the 2014 contract options for outfielder Coco Crisp and pitcher Brett Anderson. Crisp batted .261 with a career-high 22 homers, 66 runs batted in and 21 stolen bases in 131 games this past season. He also set career bests with 93 runs scored and 61 walks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,40,39],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}