The Athletics scheduled a Yoenis Cespedes t-shirt giveaway for this Saturday, which probably sounded logical enough to the promotions department when they were planning such things way back when. However, it’s definitely a little awkward now that Cespedes has been swapped to the Red Sox as part of the the Jon Lester deal. Still, they have 10,000 of these bad boys and will go ahead with the giveaway anyway:
#Athletics still distributing 10,000 Cespedes shirts Saturday as part of previously planned giveaway.
— Joe Stiglich (@Joe_Stiglich) July 31, 2014
The alternative was likely sending all 10,000 t-shirts to our friends at Cespedes Family Barbecue.
By the way, making things more awkward, Lester is scheduled to make his A’s debut Saturday night against the Royals. That being said, it’s a pretty awesome shirt, as you’ll see below. Not a bad keepsake to say farewell to a fan favorite who provided plenty of entertaining moments during his time in Oakland.
“La Potencia” is Spanish for “Power.” All this time we thought “Cespedes” was. La Potencia T-Shirt Giveaway 8/2 pic.twitter.com/QfoEWcVFK7
— Oakland A's (@Athletics) July 29, 2014