The Athletics announced that they have claimed lefty T.J. McFarland off of waivers from the Diamondbacks. It appears the Arizona organization outrighted him from the 40-man after declining a club option.
It’s a bit of an unusual situation. McFarland’s 2019 arbitration agreement included an option value for 2020. The $1.85MM price was deemed too steep. But McFarland remained eligible for arbitration.
Now, the A’s will have a decision to make. McFarland actually projects to earn more than the option value, with MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz pegging his arb value at $2.1MM. That’s all subject to negotiation, of course. The Oakland org might seek to work out a deal at its price tag and move on if that can’t be accomplished.
McFarland was in many respects much the same pitcher as he was in a successful 2018 season, with the 30-year-old producing loads of groundballs and minimal strikeouts. But he allowed more hard contact and more home runs. The A’s obviously they believe McFarland can benefit from some positive regression and/or tweaks to his approach.
Is he good???
Ground ball specialist that can go multiple innings. He has moments of being solid
he’s been on and off for some time now it seems.
Multiple inning groundball lhp. Just a guy to fill out your BP.
No, he’s terrible. He might not need to be good with that defense behind him tho
Better than you and me
And….he’s going to be released in Spring Training….
And picked up by the Cardinals
Knowing the a’s (like BOTH of their fans do), he must be CHEAP!!!
You come in every single A’s post to say they have two fans, which has never been correct, yet you keep doing it, why? Its a dumb, played out, pathetic joke that moron giants fans who forget that the A’s OWNED the Bay until 2000 when the Giants cheated them out of San Jose and then built a new park in SF – SF owners are the worst in all of pro sports, they belong in prison, not running a team, and you belong in prison for writing the same moronic line in every single A’s post.
They didn’t really steal San Jose, it’s worse than that. The A’s gave them San Jose which allowed them to explore Santa Clara as an option and then led to them using Santa Clara as leverage. Then being the grateful ownership group that they are they refused to give it back. Kept it like it had been theirs all along. Now I wish they would have moved to Tampa.
I disagree, I think getting given something under the pretense that you are going to do something with it, and then you don’t but still keep it, then that’s stealing. Giants needed to have moved to SJ to validate it, or give it back to the A’s.
Statman still lives with his parents. Just ignore him
MCFARLAND USA!
Good for TJ, it’s nice to see my best friends little brother out there