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Sources: A's land Giambi with one-year deal
by Ken Rosenthal
Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.

Updated: January 6, 2009, 1:27 PM EST 106 comments

Jason Giambi is going back to Oakland.


The A's have reached preliminary agreement with Giambi on a one-year contract with a club option for 2010, according to major-league sources.

The deal, the possibility of which was first reported by ESPN.com, is pending a physical.

"They're at the finish line," one source said.

Giambi, who turns 38 on Thursday, will be both a first baseman and designated hitter for the A's. Jack Cust will continue to serve as both an outfielder and DH.

While the financial terms are not yet known, Giambi will receive a substantial pay cut from his previous deal with the Yankees, which paid him $120 million over seven years.

Giambi received a $5 million buyout after the Yankees declined his option for 2010, and his salary with the A's is expected to be in the $5 million range.

A 14-year veteran, Giambi batted .247 for the Yankees last season with a .373 on-base percentage, 32 homers and 96 RBIs. He spent his first seven seasons with the A's, winning American League MVP in 2000 and finishing second in '01.
 
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heard about it yeah....if we start out hot and one of our young pitchers starts tearing it up getting hella wins early...hes gone....billy b keep us with high hopes....but needs to make it happen...oakland is too good of a franchise to miss the playoffs like we have been...

i allways said fuck you giambi when he bounced for pinstripes....ill welcome him back i guess
 
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Print and Go Back ESPN.com: Baseball [Print without images]

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Giambi, A's finalize one-year deal
ESPN.com news services

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Jason Giambi is returning to his professional baseball roots with the Oakland Athletics.

Giambi and the A's finalized a one-year contract with an option Wednesday, bringing the free-agent designated hitter and first baseman back to the place he began his big league career.

ESPN The Magazine senior writer Buster Olney reported the deal will pay Giambi $4 million in 2009 with a $6.5 million base salary for the option year in 2010. The second year would also provide for a $1.25 million buyout.

The sides had reached a preliminary agreement earlier this week but Giambi still needed to complete the obligatory physical for the deal to get done.

Giambi, who turns 38 on Thursday, follows a line of aging and injury-prone designated hitters in recent years with the A's -- Frank Thomas, Mike Piazza, Mike Sweeney and then Thomas again. Giambi also could play some first base to give Daric Barton a break from time to time.

After leaving the A's following the 2001 season, Giambi signed a $120 million, seven-year contract with the New York Yankees. He was slowed by injuries and was ensnared in the federal and baseball investigations of performance-enhancing drugs.

New York declined its $22 million option on him after last season, choosing instead to pay him a $5 million buyout.

From the constant fanfare of Yankee pinstripes and playing in the Bronx to again wearing the green and gold in the blue-collar environment that comes with playing in the decrepit Coliseum and being part of the low-budget A's, this marks a familiar change for Giambi. He won the AL MVP for Oakland in 2000.

A's third baseman Eric Chavez is still around from Giambi's early days, too.

Oakland announced in early November that Bob Alejo would become its new director of strength and conditioning -- a sign Giambi might be next to come back and return to his roots. Alejo served as the A's strength and conditioning coach from 1993-2001 and followed Giambi to the Yankees, working for Giambi personally and for the team during some years.

The slugger got booed when he came back to the Bay Area with the Yankees, customary treatment for all of those former Oakland stars who have gone on to big money elsewhere.

Giambi, a second-round draft pick by the A's in 1992, is a .286 career hitter with 396 homers and 1,279 RBIs in 14 big league seasons. He made his major league debut for Oakland on May 8, 1995.

Giambi batted .247 with 32 home runs and 96 RBIs in 2008 for the Yankees, who missed the playoffs despite their $200 million payroll after a run of 13 consecutive postseason appearances. That's just one shy of the record set by the Atlanta Braves from 1991-2005.

To open a roster spot, the A's designated infielder Joe Dillon for assignment.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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