The Oakland A’s sign SS Hiroyuki Nakajima
The A’s have signed 30-year old righty swinging SS Hiroyuki Nakajima. Nakajima played in 136 games for the A’s last year and he was 155 of 499 (.311 avg, .833 OPS) with 69 runs scored, 13 homers, 74 RBIs and 7 stolen bases. In his last six years in Japan, Nakajima played in 821 games in which he was 975 of 3,147 (.310 avg, .856 OPS) with 474 runs scored, 104 homers, 514 RBIs and 97 stolen bases. Nakajima will likely be the starting SS for the A’s in 2013.