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Athletics Outright Brent Honeywell

By Darragh McDonald | September 11, 2022 at 1:35pm CDT

The A’s announced that right-hander Brent Honeywell Jr. has been outrighted to Triple-A Las Vegas.

Honeywell, 27, was drafted by the Rays in 2014 and spent years being considered one of the best prospects in the game. He cracked Baseball America’s top 100 list for five straight years from 2016 to 2020. He stayed on that list for so long both because of his talent and because repeated injuries prevented him from exhausting his prospect status.

Honeywell required Tommy John surgery in early 2018, which wiped out that entire season. In June of 2019, he fractured a bone in his right elbow while working his way back to the mound, making it two straight lost seasons. In May of 2020, while the pandemic had put the season on pause, he underwent a decompression procedure on his right ulnar nerve. That eventually made it three consecutive campaigns without Honeywell taking the mound in an official game of any kind.

In 2021, he finally was healthy enough to pitch, making his MLB debut for the Rays. They only let him throw 4 1/3 innings at the big league level, however, leaving him in Triple-A most of the year. He threw 81 2/3 frames there with a 3.97 ERA, 20% strikeout rate and 7.2% walk rate.

Those weren’t eye-popping numbers, though it probably would have been unrealistic for Honeywell to just jump to ace-like results after three lost seasons. The A’s acquired him from the Rays in November, hoping that another healthy year could perhaps allow Honeywell to rediscover some of the form that made him such a hot prospect in previous years. Unfortunately, he was dealt another injury setback, diagnosed with an olecranon stress reaction in his elbow in March. That landed him on the 60-day IL to start the year, where he’s been until today. The club didn’t announce that Honeywell had been designated for assignment but they evidently passed him through waivers in recent days.

Since he was on the 60-day IL, Honeywell wasn’t occupying a spot on the 40-man roster. He was about to, however, as he began a rehab assignment August 16. Rehab assignments for pitchers come with a 30-day maximum, meaning Honeywell was nearing his activation point. Instead, the A’s put him on waivers and passed him through. This is his first career outright and he has less than three years of MLB service time. He will stick with the A’s without retaking a spot on the roster. In 11 2/3 innings as part of his rehab, he logged an ERA of 8.49, though likely somewhat marred by a .405 BABIP. He’s struck out 19.3% of batters and walked 7% in that small sample.

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  1. julyn82001

    1 year ago

    Brent needs to tune himself up at AAA to see if he can stay healthy and come back to the bigs specially with a team like the A’s where there is plenty of uncertainties right now but with a possibility to be in their pitching staff…

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    • Zachary D Manprin

      1 year ago

      Getting aired out in Las Vegas is not exactly the soft landing he needs.

      Reply
    • mydadleftme

      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, he tried very hard to throw a screwball… and he’s letting everyone know why you shouldn’t throw a screwball in today’s game, it was only rarely thrown when pitchers were not throwing this hard.

      Reply
  2. hiflew

    1 year ago

    It’s a good thing they brought him along slowly, otherwise his career might have been ruined by injuries.

    Reply
    • dave 2

      1 year ago

      Lol. You think someone getting injured is proof that being concerned about injuries is foolish?

      Reply
      • hiflew

        1 year ago

        No, but I do think comprehending sarcasm might not be your strongest suit.

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  3. metsbidenlol

    1 year ago

    MeltingMetsLOL should trade for him. With Maxey Pad now being soiled, they need all the help they can get to stay in the division race.

    40 million down the tubes.

    LOL

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  4. darthdragula

    1 year ago

    Hate to say it but it may be time for Brent to start considering another career path. Perhaps he’d make a good surgeon. He certainly has plenty of experience with it. Or perhaps physiotherapy?

    Reply
    • Finatic

      1 year ago

      u could start a new career in the circus by talking out your butt. Is trying to fulfill your dream to play baseball but being derailed by injuries a bad thing?

      Reply

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