The A’s fell 12-11 to Cleveland Monday night in 10 innings, with JP Sears taking on Cleveland and Steven Kwan in Game 2.
OAKLAND — When Steven Kwan settles into the batter’s box as anticipated for the Cleveland Guardians Tuesday night to lead off the game against left-hander JP Sears of the Athletics, it’s a victory for every aspiring player who looks at the requisite prototypes of big leaguers and wonders how they can ever measure up.
The Sears-Kwan opening act will serve as a reminder that baseball, even as teams are in search of the next Aaron Judge, are still open to a smallish crafty left-hander or a leadoff hitter who can work the count, run the bases and spray the ball anywhere in fair territory. Things changed when Sears was a junior. He went 7-3 with 142 strikeouts in 95 innings in 2017, including 20 in one game against Virginia Military Institute. That was swing-and-miss evidence for scouts to overlook his stature and Sears was an 11th-round draft pick by the Seattle Mariners.
Sears has no intention of looking beyond the first pitch of his next start and wondering what is next. Kwan had a five-RBI game in the opening series against Seattle, and his value, if anything, has become enhanced with larger bases and restricted pickoff opportunities. “You hear talk about all the launch angle stuff, and people are totally in your ear about it, but I just had to keep my head down and keep going and do what I can to impact a game,” Kwan said.
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