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West Notes: Athletics, Giants, Rangers

By Connor Byrne | August 28, 2019 at 1:54am CDT

Let’s take a look around the majors’ West divisions…

  • With the Athletics looking to add a third catcher when rosters expand, they’re set to choose between minor leaguers Sean Murphy and Dustin Garneau, manager Bob Melvin told Martin Gallegos of MLB.com. “There will be a lot of talk leading up into Sunday on who that will be,” Melvin said. The more hyped option is certainly Murphy, one of the best prospects in baseball (MLB.com ranks him 44th). The 24-year-old has gotten his first extensive action at the Triple-A level this season and laid waste to enemy pitchers, whom he has teed off on for a .337/.415/.702 line (158 wRC+) with 10 home runs in 123 plate appearances. However, injuries have led to an abbreviated campaign for Murphy, and the A’s might not promote him yet if they don’t expect him to garner much playing time. In that case, the edge would go to the veteran Garneau, who was with Oakland earlier in the season before it outrighted him to Triple-A on Aug. 19.
  • The Giants are shutting down right-handed reliever Trevor Gott for two weeks because of a Grade 1 UCL sprain and a flexor strain, according to Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic. Surgery’s not an option at the moment, fortunately, and manager Bruce Bochy’s hopeful Gott will pitch again this season. If not, this will go down as an encouraging year for Gott, whom the Giants acquired from the Nationals for cash considerations in February. While Gott has put up an unappealing 4.44 ERA in 52 2/3 frames, he has also notched a 3.12 FIP with 9.74 K/9 against 2.91 BB/9 and almost doubled his swinging-strike rate since last year (from 5.6 percent to 10.8).
  • More from Baggarly, who tweets that righty Johnny Cueto’s another Triple-A start away from rejoining the Giants. The 2018 Tommy John patient’s scheduled to take the ball Saturday, after which the Giants hope to activate him. That would seem to align with Bochy’s Sept. 8 projection for Cueto. The Giants’ playoff hopes are all but dead at this point, but they’ll nonetheless be glad to welcome Cueto back in advance of 2020. Next season will be the second-last guaranteed campaign of the six-year, $130MM contract San Francisco handed the then-ace prior to 2016.
  • The Rangers are contemplating September promotions for hard-throwing minor league relievers Joe Barlow and Demarcus Evans, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News reports. Neither pitcher is on the Rangers’ 40-man roster, which is full, but the team plans to add the soon-to-be Rule 5-eligible pair in the coming months anyhow, as Grant notes. The 23-year-old Barlow has largely mowed down pro hitters since he joined the Rangers as an 11th-round pick in 2016, though he has struggled over his first 15 1/3 Triple-A innings this season. Evans, 22, was a 25th-rounder in 2015 who has risen to Double-A ball for the first time this season. He has overcome a high walk rate there (5.4 per nine) to post a microscopic 1.08 ERA with 14.58 K/9 in 33 1/3 innings.
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  1. Eightball611

    6 years ago

    I’d give Murphy the spot…he earned the second look.

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  2. Socrates Curveball

    6 years ago

    A’s are gonna keep that service clock on Murphy from starting probably into 2019. Bet he finally makes his debut after the Super 2 Deadline next Yr. Will be very interesting to see if Beane keeps this expensive core together into 2020 or begins selling of pieces due Arbitration raises and on the cusp of free agency. Shame the A’s never added the final started to this group to make them legitimate adversaries for the Yankees / Astros. Luzardo / Puk could be those front rotation guys in a couple yrs but will the A’s nucleus be intact?

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    • bowserhound

      6 years ago

      Just swept the Yankees and won a series against the Astros just 2 weeks ago…

      Reply
    • arc89

      6 years ago

      Even if Murphy is called up he will not get enough at bats to matter for service time. The person i wnat called up the most is Mateo. A’s biggest weakness all season has been 2B.

      Reply
      • jorge78

        6 years ago

        Service time is days on the major league roster.
        At bats have nothing
        to do with it…..

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    • sacball

      6 years ago

      expensive core? huh?

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      • arc89

        6 years ago

        Beane will not trade the expensive core for a while. If Beane were to trade the expensive players for prospects it would happen in 2022 when chapman and Olson is in their final year of arbitration. So the A’s are set for the next 2 to 3 years.

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        • sacball

          6 years ago

          exactly! Semien is the only one who’s going to become expensive via arb, unless the A’s lock him up, which given his recent rep change sounds like a real possibility.

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  3. Adios pelota!

    6 years ago

    Gott was one of our most consistent relievers hope he sticks around for another year. He was pretty impressive considering there was little expected from him this year, and he was kinda the jack of all trades for the bullpen, throwing multiple innings and being put in some tight leverage spots at times.

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  4. unsaturatedmatz

    6 years ago

    Rangers are about to have a bullpen filled with elite talent

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    • tsc32

      6 years ago

      Rotation too. Palumbo, Burke and Allard is just the first wave.

      Reply
  5. Caleb Clark

    6 years ago

    The A’s should call up these 3 prospects:
    C Sean Murphy (No. 3)
    2B/SS/OF Jorge Mateo (No. 4)
    3B Sheldon Neuse (No. 8)

    That is if:
    1) They drop out of the playoff race
    2) They just want to

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    • sacball

      6 years ago

      Neuse’s going be playing 2B come Sept 1st…they’ve been playing him there exclusively in Vegas for about a month now.

      Reply
  6. sacball

    6 years ago

    unpopular opinion: wait till next year to bring up Murphy…let his damn body heal.

    Reply
  7. Balk

    6 years ago

    Look! It’s almost Cueto time! One of the most fastest recovery times I’ve seen in a long time after a TJ surgery.

    Reply
  8. driftcat28 2

    6 years ago

    Happy to hear Cueto is almost back. Hope he shines. He was looking good last season before the injury

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