OAKLAND -- After being on the sidelines for the last couple of years, the A's jumped back into the international baseball pool Saturday, signing a highly touted player out of Cuba, Lazaro Armenteros, and the son of former American League MVP George Bell, among five players.
Director of Pro Scouting Dan Feinstein said the A's had been following Armenteros since long before he defected from Cuba and went to Haiti before winding up in the Dominican Republic.And while Feinstein agreed comparisons between Armenteros and another Cuban, former A's slugger Yoenis Cespedes, weren't unwarranted, he said "when I first saw him, I saw a young Frank Thomas.