![]() ![]() In 1999, the author added an additional episode to the game and released it as freeware. … Kotsay said the A’s hope to see Capel reduce his strikeouts and play more confident defense at Triple-A."Tyrian 2000 was originally called simply Tyrian and was published by Epic MegaGames. … Paul Blackburn (blister) threw all his pitches in a bullpen session and will probably throw one more bullpen before pitching in a game. May is on the IL with anxiety-related issues, and is eligible to return Thursday, but Kotsay said May will likely get at least another rehab appearance. He entered Wednesday with a 0.75 ERA and five saves in 11 outings.īriefly: Trevor May worked a scoreless inning in a Triple-A rehab outing Tuesday. Puk has pitched well in relief for the Marlins. Most of Bleday’s seven homers at Triple-A were to right-center or right field, which he termed a product of “mistake (pitches) and being accurate and trusting that move to the baseball.”īleday was playing mostly center field for Las Vegas but will likely see more time in the corner spots with the A’s, who have Esteury Ruiz playing every day in center. “It’s just, let the velo do the thing, just try to be accurate” with his swing. ![]() “If you’re practicing a high flight (launch angle), it’s only going to get higher with velocity,” Bleday said. Bleday said with the Marlins he hit “a lot of foul balls on heaters and certain pitches that I should be putting into play” and strove for “being more on top of the baseball and going for that line-drive angle.” 229 in 85 games for Miami’s Triple-A affiliate. Bleday said he worked this offseason on “being short to the ball” and entering each at-bat “trying to hit a line drive over the shortstop’s head,” an approach he gleaned from talking last season with Freddie Freeman of the Dodgers.īleday said he also started doing cage hitting with foam balls that can simulate the carry on four-seam fastballs, and that has helped him prepare for in-game fastballs. 167 in 65 games as a rookie last year with the Marlins, after hitting. The fourth overall pick in the 2019 draft, Bleday hit. “If we’re bringing someone here that’s performing, I think it’s the right opportunity to just put him in the lineup and see how he handles it,” Kotsay said. He started in left field, batting fifth, in his A’s debut. 316/.429/.643 batting line in 25 games at Las Vegas. Puk to Miami in February, Bleday, 25, had a. “We’re going to look at both him and (Smith) while they’re here together and take this time to kind of allow them to go out and earn that spot.”īleday up: In another move involving a prospect, the A’s called up outfielder JJ Bleday from Triple-A on Wednesday and optioned outfielder Conner Capel to Las Vegas.Īcquired in the trade of pitcher A.J. “The reason we sent him to Triple-A was so he could continue to build confidence, continue to get those at-bats that he didn’t have last year in Triple-A. “He’s got this opportunity to make a big impression,” Kotsay said. 339 in 14 games at Triple-A and attributed that to compiling “quality at-bats.” Kotsay said the A’s hope to see that translate. He said Tuesday he was “trying to do too much rather than just relaxing.” Allen hit. 438 OPS before hitting the IL with a strained left hamstring.Īllen, the A’s primary shortstop in the second half last season, began this year 1-for-16 with Oakland before being optioned. ![]() ![]() Díaz, 32, has not produced much in his first month with Oakland. Smith, 26, was Oakland’s primary shortstop the final three weeks of April. “Two guys we see as possibilities for shortstop in the future are here and they’re going to get those chances,” Kotsay said. For now, manager Mark Kotsay said he plans to have Allen and Smith share time at shortstop, a setup with longer-term implications. With Díaz going on the injured list Tuesday, the A’s recalled Allen from Las Vegas and started him at shortstop in their first two games against the Mariners. ![]()
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