Luis Severino will exercise his $22MM player option and stay with the A's for the final year of his deal in Sacramento. After a season-ending shoulder injury limited him to 12 starts (4.16 ERA), guaranteed money beat a lockout-clouded market. 💰
Speculation only: with free agency a tough sell, one writer floats Red Sox righty Brayan Bello and Rays ace Drew Rasmussen as trade targets for Taylor Smith's A's. Bello's price could be low, while Rasmussen's $20M, one-year deal might make him gettable. 🎯
The A's declined 2027 club options on Jeff McNeil and Jeffrey Springs, sending McNeil to free agency after one season. He hit .264 with nine homers and 59 RBIs, mostly at second base. Zack Gelof looks like the likely replacement. 🔁
The A's declined their 2027 club options on Jeff McNeil and Jeffrey Springs, sending both to free agency. Neither move was a surprise after down years. Springs leads the team in starts (29) and innings (142.2), so those innings now need replacing. 📉
MLB Trade Rumors - Athletics: Athletics Decline Club Options On Jeffrey Springs, Jeff McNeil
Brent Rooker's 2026 was lost to an oblique strain and left knee surgery, leaving him with 48 games, a .670 OPS and 10 homers on a 64-98 A's team. He's now aiming for a healthy 2027 and mentoring younger players, with Henry Bolte as a standout. 🩹
Historically, the A's franchise has nine World Series titles, and this retrospective ranks its top five seasons. Some of the best teams, like the 107-45 club of 1931, dominated the regular season but still fell short in the World Series. 📜
The A's sent six players outright to Triple-A Las Vegas after they cleared waivers: Henry Baez, Joey Estes, Geoff Hartlieb, Brian Serven, Michael Stefanic and Johnathan Rodríguez. The 40-man count drops to 41 as the offseason roster crunch begins. 🧹
Transaction Alert: The Athletics have acquired LF Nate Eaton from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for RHP Jareth Rayo. 🔄
The offseason clock is running: the A's have five days to decide on Jeff McNeil's $15.75M and Jeffrey Springs' $15M options, and both look likely to be declined. Luis Severino's $22M option is expected to be accepted. A rotation add looks like the priority. ⏳
Ex-Athletic Carlos Pérez, who played 66 games for Oakland in 2023, re-signed with the Tigers on a minor-league deal. The 36-year-old catcher hit .241 with 15 homers across 69 Triple-A games in 2026 and hasn't reached the majors since his A's stint.
A's offseason looms with a possible Dec. 1 lockout, which puts pressure on November deals. Payroll limits make Tarik Skubal unlikely, so Taylor Smith could target arms like Clay Holmes and Nick Martinez to upgrade a pitching staff in a wide-open AL West.
10/28/1989: Rickey Henderson led off Game 4 of the World Series with this home run for the A’s.
A's fell from 76 wins to 64-98 as injuries and poor pitching derailed the rebuild. New baseball ops president Taylor Smith, 31 and the game's youngest front office head, inherits the offseason for the final year in Sacramento. 📉
Taylor Smith, the youngest head of baseball ops in MLB, says the A's are still assessing their strengths before building out the front office, possibly with a GM. He wants analytics and scouting working together, and calls Leo De Vries the farm's crown jewel.
Max Muncy had knee cartilage debridement surgery plus a PRP injection, and he's expected to be fully ready for camp. 🔧 He faces a pivotal year: one minor league option left, a new front office, and a .230/.296/.387 line with a 32% strikeout rate.
Taylor Smith, the A's new President of Baseball Operations, faces a choice: flashy on-field moves or quieter analytics and development work. With transactions likely frozen from Dec. 1 until near spring training, November could show which way he leans. 🔍
Stephen Vogt, who caught for the then-Oakland Athletics (2013-17, 2022), shut down Mariners rumors: "I'm here. I'm coming back." Seattle never approached the Guardians manager, who has a 265-220 record in Cleveland. Nostalgia, not a move. ⚾
Todd Benzinger, who died Wednesday at age 63, is best remembered for catching the final out of the Reds' 1990 World Series sweep of the Oakland Athletics. He also played for the Dodgers. A painful footnote in A's history. 🕯️
Todd Benzinger, first baseman on the 1990 Reds, has died at 63. He caught the final out as Cincinnati completed a four-game World Series sweep of the Oakland Athletics, a painful chapter in A's history. 🕯️
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