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The A's, quiet for much of the winter, made a late splash on Tuesday by signing Ben Sheets to a one-year deal worth about $10 million. Sheets can earn up to another $2 million in incentives.Sheets, a former All-Star who missed all of the 2009 season with injuries, is obviously a gamble for the A's, but they had more cash than other clubs to spend because the rest of the roster is so young and cheap.
If Sheets is healthy, he'd go into a rotation with Justin Duchscherer (another All-Star coming off a lost season) and youngsters Brett Anderson and Trevor Cahill. The move might give the A's the flexibility to trade some of their other talented young pitchers (Vin Mazzaro, Gio Gonzalez, Dallas Braden) for a bat.
Sheets missed last season after undergoing elbow surgery. He proved he was healthy with an impressive workout before more than a dozen teams last week in Louisiana. The Mets and Cubs were among the other teams believed to be pursuing him most aggressively.
Although Sheets has had an injury-filled career, there is no doubt that when he's healthy he's one of the better pitchers in the game. Sheets, 31, is 86-83 with a 3.72 ERA during an eight-year career spent entirely with the Milwaukee Brewers. He started the All-Star Game for the National League in 2008.
Last year Sheets was on the verge of signing with the Texas Rangers before his latest elbow problem cropped up. He had surgery and spent the season rehabbing, without a team.
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