The Oakland A’s roster became two players lighter on Sunday. The team began spring training with 70 players in MLB camp, but this new round of cuts brings that number down to 38 — of course, it needs to be 25 by Opening Day. Here are the two players exiting this time:
These two moves are quite different in nature, so let’s take them one at a time.
Hahn was in a legitimate competition for a spot in the starting rotation. He was looking to make a bounce-back after struggling in 2016, but simply didn’t perform well enough in the Cactus League this year.