This is my attempt to keep track of the revolving door franchise that is the 2008 Oakland A's and provide a visual guide to who's who and how they came to play for the A's...
June 1984 - Drafting Mark McGwire eventually led to Jack Hannahan...
July 1986 - Signing Mike Bordick introduced Keith Foulke who returned in 2008...
June 1987 - Drafting Scott Brosius produced Joey Devine...
June 1992 - Drafting Jason Giambi gave us Joe Blanton who brought in Josh Outman...
June 1994 - Drafting Ben Grieve produced Mark Ellis, Ryan Sweeney, Travis Buck and Gio Gonzalez...
...whilst we also drafted Emil Brown who later returned to the fold in 2008...
December 1994 - Signing Luis Vizcaino gave us Justin Duchscherer...
June 1996 - We drafted Eric Chavez...
June 1997 - Drafting Tim Hudson brought in Dan Meyer...
...and drafting Chad Harville introduced Kirk Saarloos who came back this year...
July 1997 - Signing Miguel Tejada gave us Huston Street...
June 1998 - Drafting Mark Mulder led us to Kiko Calero, Daric Barton, Dana Eveland, Greg Smith, Carlos Gonzalez and Aaron Cunningham...
January 2000 - We signed Jairo Garcia a.k.a. Santiago Casilla...
June 2000 - We drafted Rich Harden, who along with Chad Gaudin, became Sean Gallagher, Matt Murton and Eric Patterson...
June 2001 - We drafted Bobby Crosby,...
Dan Johnson,...
and Marcus McBeth who gave us Chris Denorfia,...
July 2001 - We signed Gregorio Petit...
June 2002 - Drafting Bill Murphy gave us Rob Bowen and Jerry Blevins...
June 2003 - We drafted Andre Ethier who "became" Andrew Brown...
June 2004 - Saw us draft Kurt Suzuki...
and Dallas Braden...
and Jeff Gray...
and pick up Brad Ziegler...
November 2004 - We sign Jack Cust who returned in 2007...
June 2005 - Oakland draft Cliff Pennington...
and Jeff Baisley...
January 2006 - We sign Frank Thomas for the first time, and do it again for 2008...
November 2006 - We purchase Donnie Murphy...
December 2006 - Alan Embree joins us...
February 2007 - We grab Lenny DiNardo....
November 2007 - We acquired Wes Bankston off waivers from the Royals...
December 2007 - We take Fernando Hernandez (briefly) from the White Sox...
...and sign free agent Brooks Conrad...
January 2008 - We grab Jeff Fiorentino...
February 2008 - We sign Mike Sweeney...
and in April 2008 - We take Rajai Davis from across the Bay...