One year it was Matt Holliday. This year it was Hideki Matsui. Both were star sluggers on a previous team.

More to the point, they were supposed to give the Oakland A's the pop that was missing from the offense since the days of Rickey Henderson and Jason Giambi. Oakland tried to replace those missing pieces quite literally in the form of home runs and runs to rem...

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