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A’s Andrew Lambo healthy after cancer treatment, hopes to stay with team

Anaheim - Andrew Lambo doesn’t know if he’s in the A’s plans for next year after missing the second half while getting treatment for testicular cancer.

He wants to, immensely - because he wants to do well for a team that supported him throughout his recovery. Lambo, who visited the team at Angel Stadium on Monday, was particularly touched that Oakland put him on the big-league roster and 60-day DL on July 4, which meant that he’d receive a big-league salary for half the season.

Sure, the A’s had a practical reason for doing so; they wanted to get Patrick Schuster onto the 40-man roster.