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World Series Champions Reap The Benefits Of Billy Beane’s Wheeling And Dealing

By Jason Leary

Nov 2, 2016; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Cubs fans celebrate after game seven of the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians outside of Wrigley Field. Cubs won 8-7. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 2, 2016; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Cubs fans celebrate after game seven of the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians outside of Wrigley Field. Cubs won 8-7. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports /
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Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein got his start building World Series winners with the Boston Red Sox who thrived with a slew of former A’s.
Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein got his start building World Series winners with the Boston Red Sox who thrived with a slew of former A’s. /

2004: Boston Red Sox

Do the Red Sox reverse the curse without former A’s Johnny Damon, Keith Foulke, and Mark Bellhorn? No way, no how. Beane watched Damon and Foulke leave Oakland as free agents in 2001 and 2003 and traded Bellhorn to the Cubs in 2001, setting him on a path that would eventually take him to Boston. The A’s used the compensation draft picks acquired via the departures of Damon and Foulke on Nick Swisher, Mark Teahen, Landon Powell and Danny Putnam. Twelve years later, there are still several players in the A’s organization connected to Swisher via a dizzying series of trades: Casey Meisner, Sean Manaea, Jesse Hahn, Jed Lowrie, Raul Alcantara, Grant Holmes, Frankie Montas and Jharel Cotton.

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