LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell earned the wrong kind off-season award. After his arrest under bizarre circumstances in October, the New York Daily News dubbed him “The Jerk of the Week.”
With the legal process still underway, A’s Manager Bob Melvin acknowledged a degree of uncertainty about their projected starting catcher for 2018.
“Hopefully, we can get past this and he moves on and comes to spring training with this behind him, but I’m not sure that’s going to be the case,” Melvin said Tuesday, the second day of the Winter Meetings. “(He’s) just trying to do the best he can to stay positive.