Posted by Jason Wojciechowski on October 31, 2014 at 5:51 PM
Meanwhile, the A's also claimed Andrew Brown from the Mets. He's a theoretical lefty-masher, though even against them he's managed just a .229/.300/.375 major-league line in 160 career PAs over four years. He has flat-out crushed the ball at Triple-A, though, compiling a .298/.380/.555 line over those same four years, though it's worth noting that three of those seasons were spent in Las Vegas (2) and Colorado Springs (1), which are fantastic places to hit. Still, as minor-league sluggers who might show up and do something weird in 100 emergency PAs go, I'm not unhappy to have him, and it's not like it'll hurt me overmuch when/if the team DFAs him to make room for the next guy. Which may well happen in a month, who knows.