ARLINGTON, Texas – Jed Lowrie’s first four games have given manager Bob Melvin home that the A’s second baseman is fully recovered from the foot and deviated septum surgeries that cut 2016 short.
Lowrie has started the first four games for the A’s, twice batting sixth and spending one game each in the second and third slots. He is in the lineup for Friday’s road trip-opener against the Rangers, too, batting sixth for the third time.
All that hopping around has Melvin calling him “the chameleon of our lineup” because of the way he seems to fit well into each slot.