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Originally Posted by 72A'sDolphins
August 30, 2000 the Mets traded Nelson Cruz to the Oakland Athletics; any chance of a pict with him in A's uniform? (please/TY)
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If anyone else goes down this rabbit hole trying to help you in this quest, the following information may assist you in the search.
There were two major leaguers named Nelson Cruz around this time period. The one which is being sought is on baseball-reference at:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...cruzne02.shtml
He never played in the majors for the Oakland A's.
He was in the A's farm system from August, 2000 to December, 2004.
He did NOT appear on the A's spring rosters from 2001 through 2004.
I don't know if he was a non-roster invitee to A's spring camps during those four years. That seems to be the only possibility of his having appeared in an Oakland A's uniform. I tried a newspaper.com search with his name and Athletics; there were 5,000+ hits. As I started to look through them, most of them were for the other Nelson Cruz. I don't have time to look through all of them.