It looks like Yoenis Cespedes isn’t coming to the Baltimore Orioles, nor is he going to the Florida Marlins. Instead, Cespedes is going to — Oakland?
From ESPN: Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes has agreed to a four-year, $36 million deal with the Oakland Athletics, sources told ESPN The Magazine’s Buster Olney on Monday.
Cespedes established legal residency in the Dominican Republic last month after saying six other major league teams were interested in signing him.
But Major League Baseball has said Cespedes cannot finalize a contract until he obtains an unblocking license from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control because he is a Cuban national who has established residency in another country.
Cespedes met with the Miami Marlins and toured their new ballpark on Wednesday. The other teams Cespedes said he drew interest from were the Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs and White Sox.
