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JULY TRAINING INFORMATION OAKLAND ATHLETICS Oakland Athletics Baseball Company • 510-638-4900 • athletics.com • A’s PR @AsMediaAlerts OAKLAND ATHLETICS (13-8 IN 2020 SPRING TRAINING) ABOUT THE A’S: The A’s finished Cactus League play with a 13-8 (.619) record, season and 26 from day 29 through the end of the season…a club is permit- which is currently the best mark among CL teams and fourth best in the ted to carry up to three extra players on road trips as part of a taxi squad (if a majors (any exhibition games scheduled this month will also count in Spring club brings three players at least one must be a catcher)…the injured list will Training stats)…the A’s went 14-8 (.636) during the spring in 2019, which was be 10 days for players and pitchers and the 60-day IL has been reduced to the best record in the majors…have won 13 of the last 16 games this spring 45 days…the trading deadline is Aug. 31 and the postseason eligibility date after starting 0-5…played just 21 games of the originally scheduled 34 as is Sept. 15. March 11 was rained out and the final 12 games beginning March 12 were cancelled due to the Coronavirus…when Spring Training was halted, the A’s SPRING TRAINING RESULTS were tied with the Cubs for the Major League lead in runs scored (128) and HOME walks (94)…ranked second among CL teams in hits (195) and doubles (45), DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD WINNER LOSER ATTEND. CUM. third in on-base percentage (.361), fourth in batting (.275) and fifth in OPS Feb. 22 at Chicago (NL) L, 2-12 0-1 Cotton Trivino 12,109 (.798)…the pitching staff had the highest opponents batting average in the Feb. 23 San Francisco (ss) L, 3-5 0-2 Wolff Dunshee 6,017 6,017 majors (.289) and surrendered the fifth fewest home runs in the CL (21)…the at Arizona (ss) L, 3-7 0-3 Ray Bassitt 9,437 defense was tied for second in the CL in double plays (20) and ranked fifth in Feb. 24 Milwaukee L, 4-14 0-4 Burnes Manaea 3,512 9,529 fielding percentage (.981). Feb. 25 at San Diego L, 6-9 0-5 Ramirez Bracewell 2,099 Feb. 26 Arizona W, 16-3 1-5 Montas Weaver 3,745 13,274 JULY TRAINING CAMP: The A’s have 42 players in Oakland for July training Feb. 27 Colorado W, 5-2 2-5 Lee Fernandez 4,005 17,279 camp…that breaks down to 35 players on the 40-man roster and seven Feb. 28 at Cincinnati L, 1-10 2-6 DeSclafani Fiers 3,237 players under minor league contract (Campbell, Goins, Luetge, Orf, Pérez, Feb. 29 Cleveland (ss) W, 8-7 3-6 Hart Wood 6,206 23,485 Schultz, Weems)…of the 35 players from the 40-man, four have already Cleveland (ss) (at LV) W, 8-6 4-6 Howard Weiss 8,159 been optioned (Blackburn, Bolt, Gossett, Neuse) and one is on the 60-day March 1 at Kansas City (ss) W, 10-6 5-6 Naile Sparkman 5,237 IL (Mengden). at Cleveland (ss) (at LV) W, 8-5 6-6 Luzardo Plutko 7,521 COACHING STAFF: Bob Melvin returns for his 10th season as manager of March 2 Chicago (NL) W, 5-2 7-6 Bracewell Norwood 4,938 28,423 the Oakland A’s in 2020, a tenure that has included five postseason appear- March 3 at Chicago (AL) W, 6-5 8-6 Bassitt Mejia 3,559 ances and two American League Manager of the Year awards…no other ac- March 4 OFF DAY tive manager has a longer uninterrupted tenure with their current team… March 5 Los Angeles (NL) W, 5-1 9-6 Fiers Buehler 7,672 36,095 returning to Melvin’s coaching staff are bench coach Ryan Christenson, hit- March 6 Cincinnati (ss) L, 5-11 9-7 Thornburg Trivino 5,731 41,826 ting coach Darren Bush, pitching coach Scott Emerson, bullpen coach Marcus at Cleveland (ss) W, 7-6 10-7 Lee Hentges 4,000 Jensen and quality control coach Mark Kotsay…also returning in new roles March 7 at Seattle W, 8-4 11-7 Wendelken Altavilla 8,274 are Al Pedrique (third base coach) and Mike Aldrete (first base coach)…new March 8 Milwaukee W, 11-3 12-7 Petit Hader 6,314 48,140 to the A’s staff is Eric Martins, who will be the assistant hitting coach. March 9 at Texas W, 5-0 13-7 Bassitt Hernandez 5,291 March 10 Kansas City L, 2-4 13-8 Lopez Fiers 5,211 53,351 ALTERNATE TRAINING CAMP: The A’s 60-man Player Pool for the 2020 season March 11 at Los Angeles (AL) Cancelled, Rain also includes 18 players that will report to the A’s alternate training camp… March 12 at Los Angeles (NL) Cancelled, Coronavirus the list includes five players from the 40-man roster (Luis Barrera, Dustin March 13 Texas Cancelled, Coronavirus Fowler, Grant Holmes, Daulton Jefferies, James Kaprielian). March 14 Seattle (ss) Cancelled, Coronavirus at Milwaukee (ss) Cancelled, Coronavirus 2020 MEDIA GUIDELINES: Please refer to the A’s 2020 Media Guidelines at March 15 San Diego Cancelled, Coronavirus https://pressbox.athletics.com for a complete list of media guidelines…the March 16 OFF DAY following are some brief highlights from that document…media will be rec- March 17 Los Angeles (AL) Cancelled, Coronavirus quired to stay in their designated seating area and will not be allowed to March 18 at Colorado Cancelled, Coronavirus roam the ballpark…still photographers will shoot the game from designated March 19 at San Francisco Cancelled, Coronavirus sections of the seating area…all media must apply for daily credentials at March 20 Chicago (AL) Cancelled, Coronavirus credentials.mlb.com…season passes, including BBWAA cards, will not be ac- March 21 Chicago (NL) Cancelled, Coronavirus cepted…parking will be available in A lot free of charge…previously issued March 22 OFF DAY A’s 2020 parking hang tags will not be accepted…credential pick up and March 23 San Francisco (at OAK) Cancelled, Coronavirus ballpark entry and exit will be through the gated entrance located next to March 24 at San Francisco (at SF) Cancelled, Coronavirus A’s Will Call on Championship Plaza…ballpark entry will require a tempera- ture check…media must also wear face coverings at all times and practice TRANSACTIONS physical distancing and good hygiene while inside the ballpark…all manager, player, coach, and personnel interviews will be conducted via RingCentral Feb. 15 Burch Smith acquired from the San Francisco Giants for cash video conference powered by Zoom…the A’s will provide a daily boxed meal considerations; Daniel Mengden placed on the 60-day injured to media members free of charge during the regular season…media will be list (right elbow surgery) permitted to bring their food into the ballpark, subject to club approval and March 5 Daniel Gossett, Grant Holmes and James Kaprielian optioned screening upon entry. to Las Vegas; Tanner Anderson, Wandisson Charles and Miguel Romero reassigned to minor league camp A’s MEDIA ALERTS: The A’s Media Relations Department will provide frequent March 6 Daulton Jefferies optioned to Las Vegas; Ben Bracewell, Parker updates through its media-only Twitter account…for interview times and Dunshee, Ian Gardeck, Donnie Hart, Brian Howard and Zach other media alerts, please follow @AsMediaAlerts…player transactions and Lee reassigned to minor league camp other relevant game information will be posted at @AthleticsPR. March 7 Luis Barrera, Paul Blackburn and Skye Bolt optioned to Las Ve- A’s VIRTUAL PRESS BOX: Printed material will not be available…A’s and op- gas; Collin Theroux reassigned to minor league camp ponent media guides will be available each game behind Section 120…if you March 8 Dustin Fowler and Sheldon Neuse optioned to Las Vegas; Logan use a media guide, please do not return it to the table…all other informa- Davidson, Greg Deichmann, Buddy Reed and Dillon Thomas re- tion, such as lineups, game notes, statistics, releases, audio and video, will assigned to minor league camp be available on the A’s virtual press box at https://pressbox.athletics.com. June 30 Jorge Mateo traded to the San Diego Padres for a player to be named later CACTUS LEAGUE PLAYER RANKINGS: When Spring Training was halted on March 12, Austin Allen was tied for second in hits (13) and tied for eighth in RBI (10)…Franklin Barreto was tied for second in triples (2), tied for fifth in doubles (4) and tied for seventh in extra base hits (6)…Seth Brown was tied for the lead in doubles (5), tied for fourth in extra base hits (7) and tied for sixth in hits (12)…Robbie Grossman was tied for seventh in runs (8)…Jesús Luzardo was tied for fifth in strikeouts (13). NUMBER CHANGES: Franklin Barreto will switch to #4. REGULAR SEASON ROSTER NOTES: Opening Day rosters will be expanded to include to 30 players…that will be reduced to 28 on day 15 of the regular WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS 1910 • 1911 • 1913 • 1929 • 1930 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1989 three doubles over his final three games…appeared in six games at short- ATHLETICS BATTING NOTES stop, five at third base and three at second base…spent the entire 2019 sea- #30 AUSTIN ALLEN: Is batting .406 with two home runs, 10 RBI and a 1.097 son at Triple-A San Antonio where he hit .272 with a career-high 11 home OPS in 15 spring games…went 6-for-9 (.667) with two doubles, a home run runs and 54 RBI in 125 games.