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A’s seem very close to getting Coco Crisp back in the lineup

There’s a chance, perhaps 50-50, that Coco Crisp will be in Target Field, leading off and in left field for the A’s in Wednesday’s game against the Twins.

Crisp was in the Bay Area have his surgically repaired right elbow checked out by the A‘s medical crew Tuesday after playing injury rehabilitation games with Class-A Stockton Sunday and Monday.

Manager Bob Melvin said the club would be announcing a decision Wednesday on Crisp, but if he is to play for Oakland Wednesday the decision would have be

“Let’s see how the treatment goes,’’ Melvin said, “and we’ll see how he feels after that.