First baseman/outfielder Seth Brown has been despatched outright to Triple-A Las Vegas, based on his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That signifies he cleared waivers after being designated for task final week.
Brown has the suitable to elect free company however is unlikely to take action. Gamers with at the least three years of service time have the suitable to reject outright assignments and head to the open market. Nevertheless, a participant with lower than 5 years of service must forfeit his remaining wage to be able to train that proper. Brown is in between these two markers. He and the A’s prevented arbitration within the offseason by agreeing to a $2.7MM wage. He presumably needs to maintain that cash flowing and can subsequently report back to Vegas.
For the A’s, they’ll maintain onto Brown as a comparatively costly non-roster depth piece, although one with some main league success underneath his belt. He hit .224/.294/.457 for a 111 wRC+ through the 2021 and 2022 seasons. He dipped in 2023, producing a .222/.286/.405 line and 91 wRC+.
His 2024 was pretty just like his 2023 however with a robust end. He hit .202/.263/.347 for a 77 wRC+ within the first half however then had a .263/.304/.413 line and 107 wRC+ within the second half. That gave the A’s sufficient confidence to tender him a contract going into 2025, however that guess hasn’t paid off to date. He hit .212/.328/.308 for an 89 wRC+ earlier than getting designated for task final week.
As a result of that efficiency and his wage, no membership was prepared to take him on. He’ll now look to get again in a groove and work his means again to the majors, as he did in 2024. The A’s are giving some taking part in time to pretty inexperienced gamers like Denzel Clarke and Logan Davidson, so it’s solely potential that they determine to ship these guys again to the minors in some unspecified time in the future. And as all the time, an harm might come up at any time, which might result in Brown getting referred to as again up.
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