Shortstop Orlando Cabrera has signed a one-year contract with the Oakland Athletics for $4 million. Cabrera had been seeking a two-year deal for $9 million, but found no takers in what turned out to be a soft market for the veteran free agent. He earned $10 million in 2008. Because Cabrera was a Type A free agent, the A’s will have to give his former team (the Chicago White Sox) its second round pick in the June draft.
A 12-year major league veteran, the Colombia native is a career .274 batter with 105 homers and 181 stolen bases. He hit .281 last year in a stormy 2008 season under White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen.
Cabrera’s signing likely means the end of shortstop Bobby Crosby’s time in Oakland. The A’s waived Crosby during their failed pursuit of Rafael Furcal, but he went unclaimed.
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