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A’s Outright Seth Brown

By Anthony Franco | June 18, 2024 at 4:36pm CDT

The A’s announced they’ve selected Tyler Nevin onto the MLB roster. To open space on the active roster, they sent outfielder Seth Brown through outright waivers. Oakland also confirmed their previously-reported recall of outfielder Lawrence Butler and designation of veteran infielder J.D. Davis for assignment. The club’s 40-man roster count drops to 39.

There’d been no prior indication that Brown had been removed from the 40-man roster. The A’s evidently placed him on waivers after Sunday’s game without announcing the move. The 31-year-old has already gone unclaimed and will almost certainly stick in the organization with Triple-A Las Vegas.

Brown has upwards of three years of service time, which gives him the right to decline the Triple-A assignment in favor of free agency. He has yet to reach five years in the majors, though, so testing free agency would require him to forfeit what remains of this year’s $2.6MM arbitration salary. He wouldn’t match that sum on the open market, making it an easy call to report to the Aviators and try to play his way back to the big leagues later in the season.

The lefty-hitting Brown has had a sharp drop in production over the last couple seasons. He slumped to a .222/.286/.405 slash across 378 plate appearances a year ago. The past couple months have been among the worst of his career. Brown has punched out more than a third of the time while hitting just .189/.251/.306 across 195 trips to the dish. He owns a .210/.274/.371 line going back to the start of the 2023 campaign.

That’s well below the form he showed in the preceding two seasons. While Brown has never hit left-handed pitching, he was a solid power threat against righties from 2021-22. The former 19th-round pick took 737 plate appearances versus right-handers over that stretch. He popped 41 home runs, 35 doubles and four triples en route to a .483 slugging percentage. An elevated strikeout rate kept his on-base percentage at a modest .304 clip, but the power made him an above-average hitter when he carried the platoon advantage.

While that once looked like it’d make Brown a potentially intriguing trade target for teams seeking an affordable lefty bat, his performance over the past year and a half sapped any trade value. It now seems likely the A’s won’t find a taker for Brown at all. Even assuming he sticks in the organization for now, he’d be a minor league free agent next offseason if he’s not first reselected onto the 40-man roster. Brown would still be eligible for arbitration for two more seasons if the A’s were to call him back up, but they presumably wouldn’t tender him a contract to match or exceed this year’s salary.

In the short term, the A’s will take their second look at Nevin. Oakland outrighted the righty hitter a couple weeks ago. Nevin quickly hit his way back, running a .296/.365/.667 line in 14 Triple-A contests. Claimed off waivers from the Orioles at the start of the season, Nevin appeared in 40 games for Oakland before being designated for assignment. He hit .220/.307/.341 with four homers while splitting his defensive work between all four corner spots.

Nevin steps into Davis’ place as a right-handed bench bat. He could take a few at-bats from the switch-hitting Abraham Toro at third base and/or the lefty-swinging Butler, who is likely to step into Brown’s spot as the primary right fielder. Nevin is out of options, so the A’s would again need to pass him through waivers if they want to take him off the MLB roster at any point.

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15 Comments

  1. sad tormented neglected mariners fan

    1 year ago

    Nevin always comes back…

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    • GangGreen23

      1 year ago

      Nevin was 1-for-May.

      Like 1 Hit the entire Month.

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  2. CyrusZuo

    1 year ago

    Now we just need to DUMP Diaz and all will be right…

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  3. Asfan0780

    1 year ago

    On pace for their 3rd straight 100 loss season but terrible draft luck. 6th pick in 2023, 4th pick in 2024, and ineligible for draft lottery this year due to being on revenue sharing so best they can do is 10th or 11th pick I believe. No lottery they would have had #2 pick last year and the #1 year pick this upcoming draft. Dylan crews + top pick this year they start building up. Although cheap owner would’ve probably had them take a lower ranked players to avoid paying full slot bonus money

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  4. Datashark

    1 year ago

    I guess that defeats my comments about A’s not wanting to release him as he is not a FA until 2027 – he had been operating at a worse clip than Davis.

    maybe Beane is waking up to the A’s being too lousy

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    • GangGreen23

      1 year ago

      Beane is more involved with running the Owner’s soccer team the past few years.

      Reply
      • julyn82001

        1 year ago

        Beane is around. He will always be an operations kinda guy for the A’s no matter what…

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    • zacharydmanprin

      1 year ago

      Billy Beane hasn’t been involved in day-to-day operations since 2017. Hasn’t been involved much of anything since the pandemic.

      Reply
  5. Datashark

    1 year ago

    Las Vegas does not want another AAA team, for MLB pricings to build. They better start changing their ways.

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  6. julyn82001

    1 year ago

    Brown was given all sorts of opportunities with an A’s team in totally stay of flux, With literally no pressure, and little to none expectations he (Brown) did not take any advantages from these chance.s.. Butler is young and will be provided with the opportunity same as with Nevin, this a wake up call for these two guys, C’mon…

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    • GangGreen23

      1 year ago

      Nevin is only on the Team because Kotsay is pals with his Dad Phil Nevin.

      Tyler had like 1 hit in 50 at bats streak before they sent him down to the minors, but now he is back?

      It’s favoritism.

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      • Chicken In Philly?

        1 year ago

        That makes total sense. Former first round pick only makes it back to the majors because of nepotism. Couldn’t be because Brown is a known quantity while Nevin has chances left to prove himself.

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        • GangGreen23

          1 year ago

          How many teams has Nevin cycled through before landing on the A’s?

          At least Seth Brown has had a 20-Homer season in his past, what has Nevin ever accomplished ??

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      • holecamels35

        1 year ago

        Yeah because there’s just so many studs on the A’s that deserve every day playing time. Brown has been horrific this year.

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  7. The cookie-man

    1 year ago

    FINALLY!! I like what I see in Nevin moving forward! Let brown try to improve in the minors and trade his @ss down the line. He just doesn’t seem to care anymore…hopefully this slap in the gut will get him motivated!

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