The Athletics announced today that they have reinstated infielder Aledmys Díaz from the 60-day injured list. In a corresponding move, infielder/outfielder Tyler Nevin has been designated for assignment.
It’s an unwelcome birthday present for Nevin, who will reach the age of 27 tomorrow, likely while in DFA limbo. He landed with the A’s earlier this year via a waiver claim and hit well for a while but has cooled off lately. He was slashing .325/.375/.500 through May 1 but has just one hit since then, leading to a line of .023/.192/.047 in his past 52 plate appearances.
Thanks to that rough patch and the fact that he’s out of options, he has been bumped off the roster. The A’s will now have a week to trade him or pass him through waivers. Despite the recent struggles, it’s not impossible to imagine another club having interest.
Nevin has generally performed well in Triple-A in recent years but not in the big leagues. Dating back to his 2021 debut, he has hit just .208/.309/.314 in 453 major league plate appearances. His 10.8% walk rate in that time has been decent but a .259 batting average on balls in play has dragged him down a bit.
But in 576 trips to the plate at the Triple-A level over 2022 and 2023, he slashed .315/.394/.522 for a wRC+ of 134. He hit 22 home runs and walked at a 10.2% clip. He can also play all four corner spots, which could perhaps help him serve as a versatile bench piece somewhere.
His continued struggles in the majors will tamp down interest but it’s not all bad. Even in his rough stretch that started after May 1, he drew a walk in 15.4% of his appearances and had an unsustainably low .034 BABIP, perhaps leaving some hope for a bounceback. After burning his final option year in 2023, he bounced around a bit in the offseason. He went from the Tigers to the Orioles via a cash deal, but didn’t make Baltimore’s Opening Day roster, which led to him landing in Oakland.
If there’s any interest left around the league, the A’s will have a few days to suss it out. If any team were to acquire Nevin, he can potentially be retained for four more seasons beyond this one since he has less than two years of major league service time.
Díaz, 33, dealt with both a groin strain and a calf strain during Spring Training and has been on the IL for the whole season until today. He’s in the second season of a two-year deal he signed with the A’s but the first season in Oakland didn’t go well. He hit just .229/.280/.337 in 2023 for a wRC+ of 72.
The A’s will undoubtedly be hoping for a strong couple of months from the veteran so that he can be traded before his contract runs out. He’s hit .261/.314/.429 for his career overall, which translates to a 100 wRC+.
Very very weird deal, dude looked like our best hitter for several weeks then completely lost it.
The guy was not established enough to go through a prolonged slump. It happens to everyone at some point, but if you haven’t done quite a bit before it happens, then you likely never will get the chance.
Nevin can’t hit a slider. Once teams had the data on his swing it was all breaking stuff low and away.
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Yeah Tyler looked like a mainstay at first with the A’s but all that initial magic sorta went away in a blink of an eye just like that unbelievable!
Seems like Oakland has a history of a guy looking good for awhile, falling off, getting released earlier than expected
Max muncy ?
Oakland should trade back for the old max muncy so they can have 2 of them and confuse everyone
Díaz is back? Yuck
Some Tigers fans were losing their minds a few weeks ago thinking the Tigers gave away a great player for nothing. Clearly, Scott Harris knew all along that Nevin didn’t have the makings of a varsity athlete 😉
“Retirement Community”
No. He knew that Nevin had no options, and the Tigers already had more versatile utility players. He wasn’t going to play over Torkelson, Greene or Canha, and while he can sub at 3B, he’s not strong enough defensively for full time duty. Just wasn’t a good fit this year.
How does a MLB player go 52 plate appearances and ONLY get ONE hit? Guess the answer must be he’s not a MLB ready hitter! Wow
He won’t be the first nor the last son of a major league player who has to retire before 10 years.
I picked him up in fantasy a few weeks ago while he was still hitting. Immediately afterwards, he fell off. My sincerest apologies for my impact on his career trajectory.
Like my gambling career
How can you have a hole deep enough in your fantasy lineup where you add an Oakland athletic?
I have Rooker and Langliers on my roster and I am currently leading my league.
You never heard of Brent Rooker? Mason Miller?
Rooker and miller went undrafted in my league and they still are rostered in only 50% of leagues
“It’s a funny game, ain’t it Monte?”
How it started/how it’s going etc
Bro it was less than a month ago he was hitting 2nd in the lineup as their best hitter
Considering how tight Kotsay and Phil Niven are, I assumed Tyler had the safest roster spot on the team.
Wrong move on this one, should keep Nevin up
Tyler Nevin and Ryan McKenna DFA’d the same day from Bay Area teams. Nevin seemed to have a little more upside with the Orioles but they just couldn’t quit McKenna and his anemic bat. I wish them both all the best, but hopefully not as a rerun in Baltimore.