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A’s executive Grady Fuson gains multiple honors at winter meetings

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Grady Fuson is the man of the week here at the Swan and Dolphin hotels. The A’s executive is being awarded not one but two awards at baseball’s winter meetings.

Fuson, 61, is the first person ever to win both the Sheldon “Chief” Bender award for player development and the Scout of the Year award.

“The whole week has been Grady-polooza,” vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane said. “It’s unbelievable. Not since the Queen’s Jubilee has there been so much celebration.”

Fuson, a special assistant to Beane and general manager David Forst, might be best known to the general public for something entirely fictional.