After two disappointing years with the Mets, Jed Lowrie is returning to Oakland on a contract with the secondary league, Athletics announced on Wednesday.
Lowrie lost all of last season and had only eight plate appearances in 2019 during his brief stint in Queens, which cost the Mets $ 20 million.
“Oakland feels like home,” said Lowrie. “I’m excited to be back in this group and doing what I can to help us win.”
The field player, now 36, was leaving an All-Star 2018 season with A’s, where he hit 23 home runs, 99 RBIs and 37 doubles when Brodie Van Wagenen, then general manager of the Mets and formerly Lowrie’s agent, hired him January 2019.
Lowrie started experiencing pain in his left knee the following month and never fully recovered.
Van Wagenen, who was in the habit of bringing in old customers, was fired this offseason after Mets was bought by Steve Cohen. Lowrie’s signing is considered one of the worst moves of his two-year term.