Athletics right-hander Trevor Gott has a fully torn ulnar collateral ligament and will undergo Tommy John next week, per Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. He will miss the entire 2024 season and part of 2025 as well.
Gott, 31, signed with the A’s in the offseason, a one-year deal with a $1.5MM guarantee and performance bonuses based on appearances. Unfortunately, he won’t be unlocking any of those bonuses now and it will go down as a wasted investment for the A’s. Gott will be placed on the 60-day injured list when the club needs a roster spot and spend the year there. He’ll cross six years of service time in the process and return to free agency in the fall.
He has 243 2/3 innings under his belt with a 4.65 ERA. He split last season between the Mariners and Mets, tossing 58 innings with a 4.19 ERA, 23.8% strikeout rate and 7.3% walk rate. The Mets could have retained him via arbitration, with MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projecting a modest $2MM salary. But they non-tendered him instead and he landed in Oakland.
He’ll turn 32 this August while rehabbing and then will hit the open market in advance of the 2025 season. For the A’s, it opens up another spot in their bullpen for them to cycle their various young guys through and see who sticks.
You Gott to be kidding.
No, Trevor Gott an injury for real.
The A’s Gott to get someone who can replace him.
And the A’s season has officially begun…
Lights out, Trevor.
And the A’s woes continue…
blows a hole in that one guys theory that MLBTR is trying to get away from calling UCL surgery “Tommy John”.
Dang, I always miss all the fun rants.
I’m blaming John Fisher. I’m going to blame that evil POS for everything bad that’s going to happen to the A’s this season
Fisher doesn’t care because he only spends to pretend he is running a team. He makes more money than most owners by running a team as cheap as he can. Of course he will blame the fans when they don’t show up this year. they will not even draw 500,000 this year but of course blame fans for not supporting a bad team that is moving.
The worst part is the A’s aren’t as small of market as they would have you believe. They bring in more revenue than the Padres yet look at the spending difference between the teams. Revenue sharing pays for more than what Fisher has invested in his payroll.
I grew up with the Bash Brothers. I remember the Haas family never had any problems with attendance. The stadium was beautiful. And then Al Davis messed everything up. I’ll always be a Raider hater because of what they did to a once beautiful baseball stadium. And you’re correct, it’s not a small market. Not even close
Yes but also consider the demographic difference between my family that lived in the East Bay then versus a typical East Bay household today. That same home is occupied today by an engineer from India. If he follows any bat and ball game it’s cricket. He probably pays ten times what my parents did for their mortgage, so there isnt any money if he wanted to see a game, and tickets (even to Baseball’s Last Dive Bar) cost three times what they did back then.
The A’s fanbase at this point is those from further away and college students. A person cant come from Sacramento reliably on a Friday night to see a game unless they work in the city and were heading that way anyway. The college students are there reliably but you cant fill a stadium with 3-4k under grads, and they probably have homework they should be doing instead.
Yes the population is there but the amount of money you need to buy a home nearby means they come from people on H1B visa and transplants from the rest of the country, who might show up for their favorite team but arent reliably going to home games.
The main drive for Nevada is, a lot of people that used to live here now live there…as well as getting at the underlying real estate, now worth billions.
Don’t fool yourself Vegas residents don’t want the A’s they are tired of the traffic jams. Vegas on a Friday or Saturday is hard to even get down the strip without taking a couple of hours. Vegas is not much cheaper place to live with the high AC bills during the summer. Vegas is the worst possible place to put a team.
How can you blame bay area fans for not going to the game because why go see a team of new faces every year and a owner that tells you they don’t wnat you. Not sure why you think the east bay is full of Visa workers. Only place i seen that is around Oracle because that company hires mostly Visa workers. Most of the rest of the bay is very diverse with all kind of baseball fans.
I’m rooting for it to be as embarrassing as possible. 115 losses playing in one of the sadder minor league stadiums with broadcasts plagued by technical difficulties, a strong visual representation of Fisher as both a person and businessman.
More residuals for Tommy!
GOTT EM
He and Jobe should have trademarked the term in the mid-70s.
I wasn’t looking forward to watching him pitch anyway.
Gott’s arm got got. Speedy recovery Trevor!
Now I know the A’s season has begun. Eff John Fisher just because
Sorry for Trevor, wish him health and a comeback.
Can’t help it though: the guy blew 2 saves in a row back in 2020 for the Giants and they ended up missing the playoffs by 1 game. The 2nd blown save was on Kapler though; people talk about Kap as not being a player manager but he put his faith into that guy and it backfired.
Gott’s been a middle reliever ever since the Angels traded him to the Nats. If Kapler put him in a closing role then that 1st blown save is his fault too.
I am honestly shocked. Not about the surgery, that Gott is still in the league and only 32.
Eventually teams are going to have to carry 18 pitchers and 8 position players.
Or just one Bugs Bunny!
Pretty much par for the course for the A’s and their cheap signings.
More like Trevor Hadd to undergo it.
Everyone is getting a shoulder injury.
Ya Gotta Believe!
He’s done, guy cant catch a break.
Mets must have smelled that T.J. Coming. Gott better soon.
As got got when they got Gott
Gott got got, too!
Good thing resident White sox weirdo Chris Getz didn’t get Gott. Then Getz would have got got when Getz gets Gott.
Time for the A’s to look at some of the non-roster guys coming off active mlb rosters this week. Like Richard Bleier who didn’t make the Nats despite a good spring. Like a minor trade for Phil Bickford on the Mets. STAY AWAY from Joely Rodriguez, who is just few bad pitches away from being a Mexican League star. That is one guy ripe for a re-focusing of his career overseas in the NPB or KBO, given he can handle the discipline of their work/practice regiments. There are some decent arms at discount rates on the horizon that would be worth a veterans’ minimum.