"Scott Eyre was a nice pickup for the Giants in 2002 - he was acquired on waivers in August and wound up being part of a World Series team. Six years after that, the left-hander won a championship with the Phillies. His brother, right-hander Willie Eyre, is in A's camp this spring and he hopes that he, too, can be a good luck charm for a new team. "Scott went from being in Double-A to pitching in the World Series two months later," Willie Eyre said of his brother's time in San Francisco. The younger Eyre is in camp on a minor-league deal, and since he signed with Oakland, the team added two prominent relievers, Grant Balfour and Brian Fuentes, along with two starters who could be used as relievers, Rich Harden and Brandon McCarthy. So making the club out of camp might be difficult, but Eyre, who spent last season in the minors with Texas, has been through this before. "You can't come in and look at how many guys are here," he said. "I just have to show them I can get outs, that I can consistently throw strikes and that I'm good in the clubhouse." There's no doubt about that last one; Eyre already is friendly with the entire pitching staff, and his brother always was popular at every stop." Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/19/SPUF1HQMPP.DTL
