LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - As the winter meetings were coming to a close and team executives were leaving Orlando, the A’s finally got the right-handed hitting outfielder they had targeted.
Oakland landed former Stanford outfielder Stephen Piscotty from St. Louis in exchange for minor-league infielders Yairo Munoz and Max Schrock, a deal first reported by The Chronicle on Wednesday night.
Piscotty is from Pleasanton and his mother, Gretchen, was diagnosed with ALS earlier this year; the Cardinals had made it clear that if they could send Piscotty to the Bay Area, they would try to do so.