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PHOENIX - Mark Ellis is the senior member of the A's, going so far back with the organization that he shared an infield with a healthy Eric Chavez and Miguel Tejada, playing behind the Big Three of Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito.Ellis arrived midway through the A's eight-year streak of winning baseball, and he has endured the subsequent four-year playoff drought.
That makes Ellis an authority when it comes to judging the spring training vibe around the A's.
"This year is different, absolutely," Ellis said Monday, the day of the club's first full-squad workout of the spring. "This is as optimistic as I've been in spring training the past couple years. It's exciting. If you look around, we are as good as anyone in our division, and that's something we maybe haven't been able to say the past couple years."
Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2011/02/21/expectations-optimism-high-in-as-camp/
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