Oakland A's outfielder Miguel Andujar wore some special cleats fro Player's Weekend, honoring the Oakland Coliseum. We asked him why he felt compelled to do so in his first season with the team.
Oakland Athletics left fielder Miguel Andujar is 29 years old and made his big-league debut in 2017, playing five games with the New York Yankees before having a stellar rookie campaign in 2018 that saw him finish second in AL Rookie of the Year voting to Shohei Ohtani.
Even though he debuted years ago, the only time he had played at the Oakland Coliseum before being claimed off waivers by the A's last offseason was in that 2018 campaign. His main memory from that September series was that it was cold. He went 0-for-6. So why did a player that had played all of two games at the Coliseum before donning the green and gold in 2024 decide to get spikes madeIt turns out that the guy that makes Andujar's shoes brought up the suggestion since this is the A's final year at the Oakland Coliseum, and Andujar was on board. "I said yes, I like it. It's a good idea. I know the fans really want us to stay here, so I wanted to do something cool for the fans to remember our last year here.
While he went hitless as a member of the Yankees at the Coliseum, in his first at-bat of the year, which came after missing the first two months of the season, he ripped a single to left field to put the A's up 1-0 on the Houston Astros back in May as part of a 3-for-4 night.0 Minutes AgoJason is the host of the Locked on A's podcast, and the managing editor of Inside the A's. He's a new father and can't wait to take his son to his first baseball game at the Coliseum.
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