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Shortstop Orlando Cabrera signed a one-year, $4 million deal with the Oakland Athletics on Monday. He will replace the light-hitting Bobby Crosby, who is still on the roster but apparently out of a job.

Cabrera, who played with the Chicago White Sox last season, is the last free-agent shortstop to sign in a market that lost steam shortly after Edgar Renteria signed a two-year, $18.5 million deal with the San Francisco Giants early in the offseason.

Oakland had been negotiating with Cabrera for several weeks, but stepped up its interest when rumblings of the Toronto Blue Jays swinging a sign-and-trade deal with the White Sox gathered steam over the last 24 hours.

Cabrera took a huge pay cut. He made $10 million last season and didn’t exactly have a horrendous year, batting .281 with 93 runs, 19 stolen bases and 186 hits in 161 games.

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