The Oakland Athletics will continue to utilize platoons at various positions in the infield. This includes 27-year-old Josh Phegley, one half of a platoon at catcher. Phegley has never started with regularity, but with catchers like Stephen Vogt and Tyler Flowers (with whom he played as a member of the Chicago White Sox from 2013-2014) ahead of him on the depth chart, there’s never been a need for him to do so. This season, however, the A’s are expected to lean on him more, given Stephen Vogt’s injury history and relatively little success with left-handed pitching.
Oakland Athletics Preview 2016: Catcher Josh Phegley
