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A’s Farm Report: Early Season’s Hottest Hitters

Now that we’re a whole 11 games into the minor league season, it seems like a good time to see which of the A’s minor league hitters have gotten off to the hottest starts in 2019. Las Vegas’s lineup has been lighting up the scoreboard on a nightly basis, and hitters like Mark Payton, Dustin Fowler, Jorge Mateo and Sean Murphy have been the leaders of the pack there. But some slightly-lesser-known names like Midland’s Luis Barrera and Beloit’s Lester Madden have been making their mark in the early going as well.