The Athletics announced today that they have reinstated right-hander Mason Miller from the injured list, selected left-hander Easton Lucas and recalled right-hander Devin Sweet from Triple-A Las Vegas. In corresponding moves, left-hander Sam Long and right-hander Zach Neal were optioned to Triple-A and righty Spencer Patton was designated for assignment.
Patton, 35, signed a minor league deal with the club in April and has twice now been selected for short stints with the big league club. He got into four games in May before being designated for assignment. He cleared waivers and accepted an outright assignment, which allowed him to return a few weeks ago, having made another eight appearances since then. Between those two stints, he has a 5.11 earned run average in 12 1/3 innings, striking out just 12.7% of hitters while walking 10.9%.
The A’s will place him on waivers in the coming days. It’s possible the same sequence of events plays out as earlier in the season, with Patton going unclaimed. He will again have the right to elect free agency at that time. In 113 career games in the majors dating back to 2014, he has a 5.11 ERA. He also spent 2017 to 2020 in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball with a 3.68 ERA in that league.
Lucas, 26, gets selected to a big league roster for the first time and will be making his major league debut as soon as he gets into a game. Selected by the Marlins in 14th round of the 2019 draft, he was traded to the Orioles that December for infielder Jonathan Villar. He was then involved in another swap, going to the A’s a few months back as the return in the deal that sent right-hander Shintaro Fujinami to Baltimore.
Between the two organizations, he’s tossed 46 2/3 innings this year at Double-A and Triple-A. He has a combined 3.86 ERA, along with a 25.8% strikeout rate and 8.6% walk rate. He will join Sean Newcomb and Francisco Pérez as the club’s left-handed relievers for the time being and try to earn his way into the club’s plans for next year.
Any relief pitcher on the A’s would be on a minor league deal on any other team
Please don’t use all your brain cells on the obvious dude. You really think you were the first with that crap joke. Yea people forget just a year ago they made playoffs.
Buddy, cool your jets, they made the playoffs in 2022? Your joking right?
And? Last year. If they even had the cap space that the Giants had, they make the playoffs every year. Nobody can win with no money coming in. Only money they can spend is what they get in attendance and that’s crap.
Oakland made the playoffs in 2020, finished 6 games back of the wild card in 2021, and lost 102 games last year.
The a’s should designate their fans for assignment … both of them would be put out of their misery.
Lol freaking hilarious another unoriginal
Quality baseball name, Easton Lucas.
Sell the team, you scumbag Fisher
Neal and Patton stunk up the field last night. I’m sure those two cleaned out their lockers last night. they had to know they were going to get shipped out of town today after those performances.