Common catcher Stephen Vogt returned to the A’s lively roster Tuesday, becoming a member of the crew in Atlanta, the place he earned a World Collection ring with the Braves simply seven months in the past.
The 37-year-old Vogt was reinstated from the injured record, the place he’d been residing since spraining his knee on April 20. Vogt was hitting simply .071 in six video games as Oakland’s backup catcher.
Activating Vogt was merely certainly one of one other sequence of roster strikes for the A’s, who made 31-year-old slugging infielder Matt Davidson their forty fourth completely different participant to be activated by the crew this season after deciding on him from Triple-A Las Vegas. (Oakland used 50 gamers whole through the 2021 season).
To make room for the 2 veterans, the A’s optioned slumping infielder Sheldon Neuse to Triple-A and right-handed reliever Parker Mandel was designated for task.
The left-handed-hitting Vogt offers supervisor Mark Kotsay a 3rd catcher and another choice at first base. Christian Bethancourt has been Sean Murphy’s backup at catcher for the previous month and a half.
Bethancourt, who's hitting .228 with 10 RBIs in 101 at-bats, is the one A’s catcher with a homer within the final month. Murphy, whose final dwelling run was on April 29, is batting simply .193 with 5 homers and 22 RBIs and an OPS+ 88, which is 12 factors under the league common of 100+.
The A’s hope Davidson can recapture a few of the magic on the plate that produced 26 dwelling runs for the White Sox in 2017 and 20 extra in ’18. Davidson, who signed a minor-league cope with the A’s on Might 10, was second within the Pacific Coast League with 15 dwelling runs, together with seven in 21 video games for Vegas.
Each Vogt and Davidson have only one hit in restricted motion within the majors this season, however each hits had been dwelling runs. Vogt is 1-for-14 with the A’s with a homer, whereas Davidson’s dwelling run was the one hit in 10 at-bats for Arizona, which let him go in Might.
Vogt earned a World Collection ring with the Braves regardless of not seeing any postseason motion due to an harm that required hernia surgical procedure. He performed 26 video games for Atlanta, the final of which got here on Sept. 9 when he blasted a pair of dwelling runs earlier than he suffered the harm.
Neuse was despatched again to the minor leagues after a precipitous hunch that noticed him hit simply .165 prior to now 30 video games with the A’s. Neuse was hitting .228 with two dwelling runs and 17 RBIs, a large decline after being Oakland’s finest hitter in April, batting .328.
The 31-year-old Markel, who was known as up by the A’s on Might 29, didn’t permit a run in his three reduction appearances that lined three innings.
The A’s (20-35) started their nine-game highway journey in Atlanta Tuesday using a five-game shedding streak and sitting a season-worst 15 video games beneath .500. Oakland hadn’t been 15 video games beneath .500 since September of 2017.