{"id":88563,"date":"2025-02-20T11:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=88563"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:52:44","slug":"athletics-news-2-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=88563","title":{"rendered":"Athletics News: 2\/20\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-88564\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oakland_athletics.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oakland_athletics.png 492w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oakland_athletics-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oakland_athletics-70x47.png 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oakland_athletics-150x100.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/>The era of the Las Vegas Athletics won\u2019t begin until their 33,000 seat facility is opened in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>For the next three seasons, 2025-2027, the A\u2019s will be sleeping on the couch at a friend\u2019s house in Sacramento. The address will be Sutter Health Park\u201414,000 capacity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For today the question is: Who is on this roster and does anybody, outside of family, know their names?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the projected line up for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>C: Shea Langeliers<br \/>\n1B: Tyler Soderstrom\u2014He\u2019s 22.<br \/>\n2B: Zack Gelof<br \/>\n3B: Gio Urshela<br \/>\nSS: Jacob Wilson<br \/>\nLF: Seth Brown<br \/>\nCF: J.J. Bleday\u2014<br \/>\nRF: Lawrence Butler\u201423<br \/>\nDH: Brent Rooker\u2014signed a 5-year extension .293\/39\/112\u2014.365 OBP<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bench:<\/strong><br \/>\nC: Jhonny Pereda<br \/>\nINF: Luis Urias<br \/>\nOF: Miguel Andujar<br \/>\nOF: Esteury Ruiz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting Note:<\/strong> The Oakland A\u2019s, the pioneers of analytics and Moneyball\u2026had a combined OBP of .301 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Rotation:<\/strong><br \/>\n#1: Luis Severino<br \/>\n#2: Jeffrey Springs<br \/>\n#3: JP Sears<br \/>\n#4: Osvaldo Bido<br \/>\n#5: Mitch Spence<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bullpen:<\/strong><br \/>\nCloser: Mason Miller<br \/>\nSet Up: Jose Leclerc, Tyler Ferguson<br \/>\nMid: Michel Otanez, T.J. McFarland, Gran Holman, Noah Murdock.<br \/>\nLR: Hogan Harris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Still on the injured list:<\/strong><br \/>\nLuis Medina, Ken Waldichuk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The era of the Las Vegas Athletics won\u2019t begin until their 33,000 seat facility is opened in 2028. For the next three seasons, 2025-2027, the A\u2019s will be sleeping on the couch at a friend\u2019s house in Sacramento. The address will be Sutter Health Park\u201414,000 capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88565,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88563\/revisions\/88565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}