by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor January 15, 2024 The A’s recently signed last year’s backup catcher, Carlos Perez, to a minor league contract, making him the fourteenth player the A’s have inked to a minor league deal this offseason – six position players and eight pitchers. There may…
View More Get to Know the 14 Players the A’s Signed to Minor League DealsCategory: Roster/Transactions
A’s Lose 26 Minor League Free Agents
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor November 9, 2023 Within a few days after the end of the World Series, not only do a number of major league players become free agents, but a flood of minor league free agents also hit the open market. Earlier this week, the…
View More A’s Lose 26 Minor League Free AgentsMidland, Lansing & Stockton Opening Day Rosters
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor April 4, 2023 In just the last 24 hours, the opening day rosters for three of the A’s affiliates, the Double-A Midland RockHounds, the High-A Lansing Lugnuts and the Class-A Stockton Ports, were released. The Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators opening day roster was…
View More Midland, Lansing & Stockton Opening Day RostersLas Vegas Aviators Opening Day Roster
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor April 1, 2023 The Las Vegas Aviators, Oakland’s Triple-A team, began their season on Friday. And with that, the opening day roster of the A’s top affiliate became clear. Triple-A teams can carry 28 players on the active roster and, in addition to…
View More Las Vegas Aviators Opening Day RosterA’s Acquire 5 Players in Deal for Sean Murphy & Joel Payamps
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor December 12, 2022 On Monday, the A’s acquired five players in return for catcher Sean Murphy and right-handed reliever Joel Payamps as part of a three-team, nine-player trade with the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers. Oakland acquired left-handed pitcher Kyle Muller, right-handed…
View More A’s Acquire 5 Players in Deal for Sean Murphy & Joel PayampsA’s Sign 5 Minor League Free Agents & Lose 25 Minor League Free Agents
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor November 20, 2022 Within a few days after the end of the World Series, not only do a number of major league players become free agents, but a flood of minor league free agents also hit the open market. There are many ways…
View More A’s Sign 5 Minor League Free Agents & Lose 25 Minor League Free AgentsA’s Restock Minor League Pitching Depth
By Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor March 23, 2022 Despite the loss of popular players like Matt Olson, Matt Chapman and Chris Bassitt in recent days, the A’s have managed to accomplish one important goal in the process. The organization has restocked its minor league pitching depth, which had…
View More A’s Restock Minor League Pitching DepthMeet Your 2021 Las Vegas Aviators!
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor April 3, 2021 Now that major league spring training has wrapped up and the regular season has kicked off, minor league spring training camp has gotten underway in Arizona. But 26 of the A’s upper-level minor league players are now working out at…
View More Meet Your 2021 Las Vegas Aviators!Meet Your 2021 Oakland A’s!
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor March 19, 2021 Now that spring training games have been underway for a few weeks, it’s a good time to take an informed look at how the 2021 Oakland A’s appear to be shaping up. And at this point, it’s also not too…
View More Meet Your 2021 Oakland A’s!A’s Pick Up 4 Players In Rule-5 Draft
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor December 10, 2020 A great many things were quite different in the baseball world this season. But some things have remained the same – like baseball’s Rule-5 draft. The annual process took place on Thursday, and the A’s picked up a pair of…
View More A’s Pick Up 4 Players In Rule-5 DraftInstructional League Roster: A’s Top Prospects Back In Action In Arizona
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor October 16, 2020 After a lost minor league season, many of the A’s top prospects are currently participating in the A’s fall instructional league camp at the team’s minor league complex in Mesa, Arizona. Some of the prospects at the camp also participated…
View More Instructional League Roster: A’s Top Prospects Back In Action In ArizonaA’s Announce 60-Man Player Pool For 2020
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor June 28, 2020 (updated July 1, 2020) The A’s announced their 60-man player pool for the 2020 season on Sunday. 42 players will report to the A’s July training camp at the Oakland Coliseum on July 2 with the first workout scheduled for…
View More A’s Announce 60-Man Player Pool For 2020A’s Release 24 Minor Leaguers
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor In March, the A’s released two dozen minor league players before the MLB-mandated roster freeze went into effect at the end of the month. 14 of the players released were pitchers, while 10 were position players. The vast majority of them never played…
View More A’s Release 24 Minor LeaguersWho Was Set to Make the A’s Opening Day Squad in 2020?
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor As everyone knows by now, with just two weeks to go until opening day, Major League Baseball made the difficult decision on Thursday to cancel the remainder of spring training as well as the first two weeks of the regular season. But with…
View More Who Was Set to Make the A’s Opening Day Squad in 2020?A’s Major & Minor League Rule-5 Picks
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor The A’s acquired one player in the major league portion of the Rule-5 draft and selected three more players in the minor league portion of the draft on Thursday. Infielder Vimael Machin was taken by the Phillies from the Cubs with the 15th pick of…
View More A’s Major & Minor League Rule-5 PicksA’s Minor League Free Agent Roundup
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor Plenty of attention is paid each offseason to all the big major league free agent signings. But minor league free agent signees can often end up playing critical roles for many major league teams over the course of a 162-game season. Outfielder Nick…
View More A’s Minor League Free Agent RoundupA’s Minor League Free Agents
A number of players recently on A’s minor league rosters have elected to become free agents and are now eligible to sign with other organizations. They are listed below with the A’s minor league affiliate they most recently played for also noted. In addition, LHP Dean Kiekhefer, who made four…
View More A’s Minor League Free AgentsA’s Set Fall Instructional League Roster
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor The A’s set their Fall Instructional League roster on Tuesday. Camp will open in mid-September at the A’s minor league facilities in Arizona, and games are set to start on September 20. A total of 59 players, 26 pitchers and 33 position players,…
View More A’s Set Fall Instructional League RosterA’s Farm Report: Dunshee, Cotton, Kaprielian & More Pitchers on the Move
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor The position player rosters for each of the A’s minor league affiliates have remained remarkably stable so far this year, with very few hitters moving around the system too much during the first quarter of the minor league season. But the same certainly…
View More A’s Farm Report: Dunshee, Cotton, Kaprielian & More Pitchers on the MovePorts Preview: Star-Studded Outfield Set to Shine for Stockton in 2019
by Ethan Kassel / A’s Farm Stockton Contributor A high-profile outfield featuring the likes of Lazaro Armenteros, Austin Beck and Jameson Hannah is likely to steal the spotlight in Stockton this season, but the rest of the roster possesses plenty of talent as well, making the Ports one of the…
View More Ports Preview: Star-Studded Outfield Set to Shine for Stockton in 2019