The A’s have claimed catcher Dustin Garneau off waivers from the Angels, designated righty Ryan Dull for assignment, and released injured right-hander Andrew Triggs, among other roster moves, the team reports.
Garneau, designated for assignment Wednesday by Los Angeles, had slashed a solid .232/.346/.362 (98 wRC+) in limited action so far this year. It’s a stretch that far outstrips his previous work for three other MLB organizations (including the A’s) since his debut in 2015: the 31-year-old’s previous best was the 60 wRC+ he posted in 75 PAs for the 2016 Rockies. His work behind the dish has graded out mostly average since his debut, so perhaps the bargain-hunting A’s are convinced the mini-breakout is sustainable.
Dull, 29, had a solid 2016 season for the A’s but has hovered around replacement-level since. In 9 IP for the club this season, the 5’9 righty was tagged for four bombs en route to an ugly 12.00 ERA. Dull has long posted dominant K rates in the upper minors that haven’t translated to the MLB level: the 2019 campaign marks the third Triple-A stint in which the righty’s sat down over 11 men per nine.
Triggs, 30, boasts a rare high-strikeout, high-grounder mix, but the low-slot righty hadn’t been able to comfortably rebound from a thoracic outlet surgery late last season. He’d been designated for assignment by the club on Deadline Day.
Dang kinda wanted Lucroy to come back
No, he’s even worse than last year on both sides of the plate.
Ah just thought he was good with the pitching staff last year but I understand
Yeah our pitching staff isn’t exactly struggling at the moment, it’s our hitting that is struggling. Lucroy wouldn’t do much to improve what has actually been a solid pitching staff all season.
9th lowest ERA, 8th lowest BA against, 3rd most innings pitched, 4th most quality starts. Not a bad place to be with a rotation of Fiers, Anderson, Bassitt, Roark and Bailey.
What a Dull move
No matter what that poor guy does, it’s Dull news…
ouch, sounds like the Murphy/Heim injuries are more serious
No, this was about Phegley getting hurt. But they should’ve called up Murphy the night before he got hurt again.
And Herrmann sucking. Our catching options are not good right now.
might as well have just kept Luc
Barreto is also down. He is young so he will continue developing, hopefully…
A’s gotta quit being cowards and call up Corban Joseph, there’s literally no way he’s worse than Profar.
For once we agree. The Profar experiment was a failure, and no team is going to trade for 1 year of a guy whose main role is utility.
Profar is a fine 1B, so the A’s decided to never play him there. Clueless.
They didn’t play him at 1B because a no hitting 1B is worse than a no hitting 2B. They have a great fielding 1B there now and before he was back from injury, they had Canha there, who provides about 100x the value at 1B than Profar. Not at all clueless.
But with Olson and Canha he’s superfluous. And I still understand the move to get Morales. Barreto didn’t have a spring that screamed, “GIVE HIM THE SHOT NOW.”
We didn’t when Olson was on the IL, but neither did it make a lot of sense to bring Barreto up and have two black holes.
Finally these 2 pitchers are gone. Always injured
or unproductuve. They took up 40 man spots for multiple years, while A’s kept them, they deemed 40 man spots not good enough for guty like renato nunez, max muncy, joey wendle etc who all ended up doing well elsewhere. Also that richie martin unprotrcted eho i woyldve kept and wouldve been in AAA i stead of rushed to majors
I’m getting the feeling that the org and fanbase seem to think Cotton is worth keeping around too, when he’s clearly a AAAA type at best, much like Dull. Triggs is just never healthy but also there’s dozens of guys at AAA who deserve a 40 man sport more than any of this chaf A’s fans seem to adore for no real reason other than being an everyday guy on the team when they were a bad team and not winning games.
Cotton is there for depth, for now. A team might pick him up if we DFA him, but he hasn’t been even good out of the bullpen so he might sneak through waivers. Most of the guys on the 40 man roster that aren’t on the 25 man roster are guys that could still have a future with the organization, with the exception of Tanner Anderson, Jharel Cotton and Paul Blackburn.
Luis Barrera is one of the guys we protected over Richie Martin and his profile is interesting. Should be ready next year, and as much as I hate to say it, if Piscotty continues struggling he’s likely gone.
I think Richie martin has proved what the A’s knew all along. Great glove no bat. Dull had a great first year and its been sliding down ever since.
And the ridiculous thing is the uninformed fans wanted him protected over Skye Bolt for some really, really strange reason.
The well-informed fans who wanted to keep their multi-year defensive SS of the year across every level instead of giving him away for free. Bolt is meh.
Glove only shortstops are worthless, why would we want to keep him around over a switch hitting outfielder with plus defense?
“Glove only shortstops are worthless,”
just absolute lies, belanger, ryan, escobar…have you only been into baseball for like a year or something?
What are you talking about? Rule 5 guys almost never produce, the rebuilding team keeps them on so they can send them back to the minors after 1 year. Martin was by no means a finished product, and that’s what you are seeing right now. A few tweaks here and there and he’s going to have a fine MLB career. Unfair call to act like you are seeing peak Richie Martin right now.
Literally no one is saying that, and neither should you be saying that his potential was worth more than any other player. The way I saw it, Martin’s results weren’t exactly convincing. His defense alone wasn’t worth a 40 man slot, and his offensive profile isn’t what the A’s were looking for. On the other side, Mateo, Bolt and Barrera got the 40 man slots to protect them the R5 draft because they did fit the profile. Good defenders, solid and versatile offensive profiles. To say Martin was worth more than either of those 3 is hilarious.
Martin was the odd man out, just like Merrell would have ended up being the odd man out next year when Nick Allen was promoted to Double A. Martin could very well have a solid major league career, but projecting prospects in baseball is almost like gambling, and the A’s are gambling on Mateo being the better infielder and Bolt and Barrera being solid outfielder contributors.
I think I’ve said this a couple of times, but it’s a good thing you don’t work in a baseball front office. Or maybe you work for the Toronto Blue Jays and you don’t talk about it because that’s not something to really be proud of right now.
What an absolute cornball reply. You are an utterly clueless homer totally devoid of rational thought. You love bad baseball. You dont want the A’s to field their most optimal team. I’m glad youre an anon commenter too.
Nick Allen is a more gifted player than Richie Martin and it’s not particularly close. You must actually work for the Blue Jays.
Triggs had a good year for us then got hurt, Dull had a good year for us then was never good again. That kind of thing happens all the time. To say they weren’t as worthy of 40 man spots is ridiculous, though. Pitching is always going to be more important than:
* Renato Nunez, blocked by Chapman and Olson and defensively challenged.
* Max Muncy, who had to spend a season in Mexico completely changing his swing.
* Joey Wendle, who has been an injury riddled mess this year and not productive when healthy, and who netted us our potential backup catcher next year in Jonah Heim who absolutely raked in Triple A before getting hurt.
Wendle might have been the one that got away, but we got a catcher out of it, and our system didn’t have anything in the way of catching depth besides Murphy.
As for Richie Martin, he’s not good. His one good season was fueled by BABIP luck.
Martin was in AA last year, why would he be good this year in MLB?
He was never going to be good. He wasn’t even knocking the door down to Triple A and wouldn’t have started the season in Triple A anyways.
Let me correct myself. He was never going to be better than Mateo, Bolt or Barrera the way his profile was currently valued to the A’s.
No. He would have had great numbers at AAA in Oakland (especially in that park) and being around all those OBP monsters, maybe would have shown natural improvement. Martin’s ETA was always early 2021. Doesn’t mean he’s going to be bad forever. Big time oversight on your end.
He’s not going to be bad forever, nor is he a can’t miss prospect. We won’t miss him.
The amount of fan support Dull had after one glaringly obvious outlier period always bugged me. There are dozens of guys at AAA exactly like him.
Nah he’s been a DFA candidate for me all year. He was just holding onto a 40 man spot until it was needed. Tanner Anderson is next.
Hendriks and Soria are the only 2 pitchers in Oakland with FIPs under 3.50. Almost all their pitchers could be DFA candidates haa
You need to stop looking at stats as the be all end all in baseball. They’re a good way to determine value, not a good way to predict results. It’s baseball, if it was that easy baseball would have the amount of parity as basketball and football.
You need to stop being a homer. Stats are facts, and why are you defending this? Everyone was saying the A’s were using an all-5th SP rotation, and besides Montas, thats what theyve done. Fiers is a 5th SP no matter what you think. None of these guys have actually been any good, just Chapman, Olson and Semien have been bailing them out
We are using an all 5th starter rotation, and it works because our defense is incredibly solid and we use metrics to play guys effectively.
The season is over for the Angels please fire Ausmus and start clean in 2020