After two disappointing years with the Mets, Jed Lowrie returns to Oakland with a minor league deal, Athletics announced Wednesday.
Lowrie missed all last season and only had eight appearances on set in 2019 during his brief injury stint in Queens, which cost the Mets $ 20 million.
“Oakland feels right at home,” Lowrie said. “I’m thrilled to be joining this group again and doing what I can to help us win.”
The 36-year-old football field came out of the 2018 All-Star season with the A in which he hit 23 homers, 99 runs and 37 doubles when Brodie Van Wagenen, then Mets general manager and former agent of Lowrie, signed him in January 2019.
Lowrie began to experience left knee pain the following month and never fully recovered.
Van Wagenen, who used to welcome former customers, was fired this offseason after the Mets’ purchase by Steve Cohen. Lowrie’s signing is considered one of the worst moves of his two-year term.