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The A's are used to being seen as the also-rans, and even relish it. They were a playoff team last season — not the Mariners. And when"Ichiro-mania" subsides after the season-opening games in the Tokyo Dome on Wednesday and Thursday, the A's will again be under-the-radar favourites.Liam Hendriks, who is playing for his childhood team, put it a different way.
"I told myself I'd give it a few years, and if I'm not as good as I think I am, I'll go back to Australia and pick up again with Aussie Rules." "I've been around," he said."There were a lot of teams that didn't want me, but there were obviously teams that wanted me. Somebody saw something there." "My biggest goal as a starter or opener or whatever you want to call it is to go out there and get us a clean inning and get the next guy in," he said."It helps to be versatile."
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