The A’s have activated James Kaprielian from the IL and optioned Daulton Jefferies to Triple-A, per a team announcement. This reverses the roster move from 10 days ago, where Kaprielian was placed on the IL with a shoulder impingement and Jefferies being recalled to take his place. At the time, it was hoped that the shoulder issue was a minor one and wouldn’t require a long absence, a hope that has indeed come to fruition.
The return of Kaprielian strengthens Oakland’s rotation as they try to hold onto the American League’s last playoff spot. Going into Sunday’s action, they are just 1 1/2 games ahead of the surging Yankees. The 27-year-old has forced his way into the rotation with an excellent season thus far, throwing 72 1/3 innings with an ERA of 3.24, strikeout rate of 26.5% and walk rate of 9.1%.
As for Jefferies, he only got a single emergency start, going five innings, allowing three earned runs off three hits, three walks and three strikeouts. He’ll now return to Triple-A, where he has a 5.19 ERA over 59 innings this year.
“The name… is Daulton.”
Then he goes for the throat!
“Pain don’t hurt.”
And Jeff Healey begins to sing…
Darragh, I know you’re new and they haven’t really done a MLBTR writer orientation since Ben Nicholson-Smith quit, but can you please link the player names to their Baseball Reference pages? Neither of their names are clickable in this article right now. All of the seasoned writers do this, and it saves more than a few clicks of having to manually search for them. I’ll check back later.
Calm down non member. Maybe sign up for a membership before complaining about such triviality.
Wow, I’ve seen it all now. Non MLBTR paid subscription shaming by fffbbb. I believe it is you that needs to calm down.
The mute button is outstanding to silence the clowns.
Thanks for the info, Bozo
While we are all on the subject of complaining, is anyone else having the problem of articles not showing new comments? The comments are there but they don’t show as new. Makes going back through the comments section tedious.
You say “The return of Kaprielian strengthens Oakland’s rotation as they try to hold onto the American League’s last playoff spot.” but Oakland is also a mere 3 games behind the Astros for the AL West title.
Yankees are only 1.5 games behind the A’s for the 2nd AL Wild Card spot (which is what he’s referring to). Not necessarily a ton of breathing room.
They are also now only a game behind Boston for WC1.
That’s my point, both are precarious, so its remiss to leave both out.
Oakland can control the playoff spot they have by continuing to outperform those that are trailing. Therefor the spots they do not control do not matter. Postseason baseball anything can happen.
So happy for his dad