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- Updated: September 7, 2016
OAKLAND — A’s prospect Jharel Cotton has hopped around islands — and organizations — and his peculiar journey has finally brought him to Oakland, where he’s set to make his big league debut Wednesday in a start against the Angels.
“This is awesome,” Cotton said Tuesday. “I’m glad I’m here, I’m excited, just have to go out there and pitch tomorrow and have a good time with my teammates.”
Cotton, one of three pitchers the A’s acquired in the deal that sent Josh Reddick and Rich Hill to the Dodgers in July, spent the bulk of his adolescence between the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Baseball isn’t popular in either territory, but that didn’t matter to the right-hander after he was exposed to the sport on a whim as a 7-year-old.
“One afternoon, I was watching TV and my stepdad …
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