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COCO CRISP 4 OUTFIELDER Height/Weight: 5-10 / 185 Bats/Throws: Switch / Right Birthdate: November 1, 1979 Opening Day Age: 36 Birthplace/Resides: Los Angeles, California / Rancho Mirage, California Major League Service: 12 years, 158 days Obtained: Re-signed as a free agent, January 5, 2012 Contract Status: Fifth year of a five-year contract through 2016 with a vesting option for 2017 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Has played for four different teams in 14 Ma- jor League seasons…is a .268 career hitter with ATHLETICS CAREER STOLEN BASE Cleveland (2002-05), Boston (2006-08), Kansas PERCENTAGE LEADERS City (2009) and Oakland (2010-15)…has 299 ca- PLAYER SB SBA SB% reer stolen bases…has been successful in 162-of- 1. Coco Crisp (2010-15) 162 188 86.2% 188 (86.2%) stolen base attempts in an Oakland 2. Stan Javier (1986-95) 103 120 85.8% uniform, which is the best percentage in Athlet- 3. Rajai Davis (2008-10) 116 145 80.0% ics history…ranks fourth in Oakland history and 4. Rickey Henderson (1979-98) 867 1086 79.8% 10th in Athletics history in steals…has led off 5. Davey Lopes (1982-84) 62 78 79.5% the game with a home run 15 times in his career, Jose Tartabull (1962-70) 62 78 79.5% including 13 with the A’s, which is second most (min. 75 stolen base attempts) in Oakland history and tied for third in Athletics history behind Rickey Henderson (43) and Eddie Joost (19)…had career highs in home runs (22) and runs (93) with the A’s in 2013…tied for the Ameri- can League lead in stolen bases in 2011 (49) after topping the majors in stolen base percentage (91.4%) in 2010…stole 28 bases with Boston in 2007 to help the Red Sox to the World Championship and hit .281 (16 for 57) in 20 games over two postseasons with Boston (2007-08)…went 153 games and 429 total chances between errors from July 21, 2006 at Seattle to Aug. 7, 2007 at Los Angeles to establish a Boston record for consecutive errorless chances by an outfielder. 2015 HIGHLIGHTS Was limited to just 44 games due to two stints on the disabled list and batted a career-low .175…also had the lowest on-base percentage (.252) and slugging percentage (.222) of his career and his games played were his fewest since his rookie campaign of 2002 (32)…did not homer for the first time in his career and has a career-high tying 66-game homerless streak (also Sept. 12, 2002-Aug. 5, 2003)…has not homered since Aug. 27, 2014 at Houston…stole two bases to bring his career total to 299…had his streak of 12 consecutive seasons with 10 or more steals come to an end…is now 162-for-188 (86.2%) in six seasons with Oakland, which is the best percentage in Athletics history…the 162 stolen bases rank fourth in Oakland history and 10th in Athletics history…was not hit by a pitch for the fourth consecutive season and his streak of 520 consecutive games without a hit by pitch is the longest active streak in the majors…it is the longest streak by an Athletic since at least 1913…has been hit by a pitch just five times in 6129 career plate appearances…in Major League history, the only player with more plate appear- ances and five or fewer hit by pitches is Sammy West, who was hit five times in 6972 plate appearances from 1927-42…was last hit by a pitch May 9, 2011 at Texas (C.J. Wilson)…the switch-hitter batted .200 (8-for-40) against left-handed pitching, .163 (14-for-86) against right-handers…hit .250 during the day, .144 at night…had a .111 batting average with runners in scoring position and two outs and .121 when leading off an inning…was 6-for-15 (.400) with two walks and four RBI as a pinch hitter…tied for fourth in the American League in pinch hits…has a .387 (12-for-31) average as a pinch hitter with the Athletics, which is second best in Oakland history among pinch hitters with at least 30 plate appear- ances (McGwire, .393)…is 13-for-40 (.325) with 10 walks (.460 on-base percentage) in the pinch in his career…appeared exclusively in left field on defense where he played in 37 games, including 27 starts… did not commit an error in 52 total chances. 96 > 2016 OAKLAND ATHLETICS MEDIA GUIDE OAKLAND: Began the season on the 15-day disabled after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow April 3…the surgery was performed by Dr. Jon Dickinson at Presidio Surgery Center in San Francisco…the procedure involved the removal of two loose bodies and a debridement of the elbow joint…went 2-for-8 (.250) on a two-game rehab assignment with Single-A Stockton May 3-4 and was reinstated from the DL May 6 after missing 28 games…started the season 0-for-26, which extended his hitless streak to 39 at bats dating back to Sept. 26, 2014…that was the second longest hitless streak in Oakland history (40, Jose Canseco, Aug. 8-23, 1986)…it surpassed his previous career high of 23 (twice, last: May 21-June 1, 2008)…snapped the hitless streak with a fifth inning infield single May 2016 ATHLETICS 13 against Boston…batted .044 in May, which was the lowest batting average by a Major Leaguer in a month with 50 or more plate appearances since at least 1914…the previous low was .060 by Joe Morgan with Philadelphia in July, 1983 and .060 by Rocco Baldelli with Tampa Bay in May, 2007…was placed on the DL a second time May 20 with a cervical strain and missed 65 games…went 4-for-19 (.211) on a five-game rehab assignment with Stockton from July 27 to Aug. 1, which included a two-homer game against Modesto July 28…was reinstated from the DL Aug. 3 and hit .247 in 31 games following his return…singled Aug. 13 at Toronto to snap a 0-for-36 streak on the road dating back to 2014…fell two short of the Oakland record for longest road hitless streak (38, Chris Carter, Aug. 9-Sept. 29, 2010)… recorded four hits and three doubles Aug. 14 at Baltimore…it was his 14th career four-hit game (last: Sept. 27, 2013) and his third career three-double game (last: June 25, 2008)…the three doubles tied an Oakland record (26th time, last: Hideki Matsui, Sept. 4, 2011 vs. Seattle)…drove in his first run of the season that day against the Orioles, snapping a season-opening 22-game streak without an RBI…that was the longest such streak by an Athletic since Bill Almon had a 27-game streak in 1984…also snapped a 26-game streak without an RBI overall, which matched the longest such streak by an Athletic over the last 18 years (Rajai Davis, Sept. 10, 2008-June 4, 2009)…started just one of the A’s final 32 games beginning Aug. 30…went 7-for-23 (.304) in 15 games total over that stretch, including 6-for-12 (.500) as a pinch hitter…had four consecutive pinch hits from Aug. 30 to Sept. 7…made his final start Sept. 9 against Houston and went 0-for-4. CAREER 2014—Batted .246 in 126 games but added a career-high 66 walks for a .336 on-base percentage…stole 19 bases, which marked his 12th consecutive season with 10 or more stolen bases…ranked third in the American League in at bats per grounded into double play (154.3)…batted .239 with a .337 on-base percentage and .384 slugging percentage over his first 40 games, .363 with a .451 on-base percentage and .540 slugging percentage over his next 32 games from May 29 to July 8 and .189 with a .272 on-base percentage and .255 slugging percentage over his final 54 games…hit .291 with seven home runs, 31 RBI and 16 stolen bases in 73 games before the All-Star Break compared to .191 with two home runs, 16 RBI and three stolen bases in 53 games after the break…had the lowest post-ASB slugging percentage in the AL (.258) and the fifth lowest batting average…appeared exclusively in center field on defense where he played 111 games, including 101 starts…did not have an assist…his games played were the most in the majors, the most in Athletics history and 10th most in ML history among outfielders with no assists…also hit .185 in 12 games as the designated hitter and was 2-for-7 (.286) with four walks as a pinch hitter…tied for fourth in the AL in pinch walks…the switch-hitter batted .256 against right-handed pitching compared to .227 against left-handers…hit .274 in Oakland, .218 on the road…had the sixth lowest road batting average in the AL…made each of his 113 starts batting leadoff, which led the A’s… led AL leadoff hitters in walks (62)…led off an inning with a walk 23 times, which was the most in the AL…led off the game with a home run twice…was not hit by a pitch for the third consecutive season… collected two bases loaded triples and now has three with the A’s, which is an Oakland record…has four in his career…had the eighth highest percentage of pitches taken in the AL (60.8%)…was on his 10th Opening Day roster (2004-09, 11-14), his fourth straight with the A’s, and made his ninth career Opening Day start, his fourth straight with the A’s…hit his first career game-ending home run April 3 against Seattle…committed his first error of the season April 18 against Houston, snapping a 145-game errorless streak, which was fifth longest in Oakland history by an outfielder…it was his first error since Aug.