The Oakland A’s reassigned five players to Triple-A on Sunday afternoon. They began spring training with 70 players in MLB camp, but this new round of cuts brings that number down to 40 — of course, it needs to be 25 by Opening Day. Here are the five players reassigned on Sunday, including two minor league veterans and three top prospects (number in parentheses is the prospect’s ranking on our Community Prospect List):
- RHP Chris Smith
- RHP Daniel Gossett (#9)
- C Sean Murphy (#25)
- 2B Max Schrock (#10)
All five of these players are important in their own ways, but none were relevant to the conversation regarding the Opening Day roster.