The Oakland A’s optioned three players to Triple-A on Friday afternoon. They began spring training with 70 players in MLB camp, but this new round of cuts brings that number down to 45 — of course, it needs to be 25 by Opening Day. Here are the three players optioned on Friday (number in parentheses is their ranking on our Community Prospect List):
These are three of the A’s top prospects, and all are on the 40-man roster. Barreto is the best of the bunch, as a consensus Top 60 prospect in all of baseball, and he had an excellent spring in his second year in MLB camp — 13-for-27 with a homer and an 1.