Projecting the Oakland A’s 26-man roster way too early [Mercury News]
Feb. 9 The Oakland A’s aren’t done making moves.
Last week’s trade that sent Khris Davis to Texas for Elvis Andrus and $13.5 million in cash unlocked a little spending room for an A’s baseball operations department sitting in a financial stalemate. They’re expected to add more pitching, both in the rotation and the bullpen.
But the rest of the roster may be close to set. Pitchers and catchers report in less than two weeks. Here’s a very early projection at their 26-man roster our best guess at some players yet to be signed are in italics.
A’s sign reliever Deolis Guerra to minor league contract
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The Oakland A’s signed a relief pitcher this week, one with MLB experience, and they did it in typically under-the-radar fashion.
The A’s inked right-hander
Deolis Guerra to a minor league contract, the team announced Tuesday. He’s not on the 40-man roster, but is a non-roster invitee to spring training.
Oakland hasn’t picked up a single free agent on a major league deal this winter, making Guerra the most accomplished pitcher they’ve signed so far. He’s spent parts of five seasons in the majors and logged 103 innings, which is nearly as many as all the A’s other offseason acquisitions combined two cash trades (Turley, Irvin), a Rule 5 pick (Jimenez), and two other minor league signings (Guduan, DuRapau), totaling 128 career frames.
NL Central Transaction Update 2/3/21
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Hader: $2,575,000 raise
Woodruff: $2,641,900 raise
No arbitration cases remaining.
1/21/21: Signed UT Daniel Robertson to a 1-year, $900,000 major league contract. 40-man roster at 38.
Robertson was originally drafted by the Oakland Athletics out of high school with a supplemental first round pick (#34 overall) in the 2012 draft that the club received as compensation for losing Josh Willingham to the Minnesota Twins in free agency. He never has lived up to his first-round billing. After a 2014 season in High-A ball that saw him lead the California League in hits, plate appearances and doubles, and finishing 4th in on base percentage, the A’s traded him to the Tampa Bay Rays as part of a package of players for Ben Zobrist.