The A’s have outrighted Kirby Snead off their 40-man roster, as per the left-hander’s MLB.com profile web page. Snead can’t reject the project to Triple-A since he doesn’t have sufficient Main League service time and since that is his first outright, however he’s most likely prone to change into a minor league free agent.
Snead got here to the Athletics as a part of the Matt Chapman commerce bundle from the Blue Jays in March 2022, and he has a 5.59 ERA over 56 1/3 aid innings for the A’s over his two seasons within the group. Solely 11 2/3 of these innings got here in 2023, as a shoulder sprain suffered throughout Spring Coaching saved him on the 60-day injured record till the top of June. Snead didn’t seem in a sport on the large league roster till August 1, and he made 15 appearances earlier than being optioned to Triple-A in early September.
Within the small pattern dimension of 64 complete MLB innings to his title, Snead has a 17.2% strikeout charge, 10.1% stroll charge, and 42.7% grounder charge. These uninspiring numbers aren’t practically as strong as Snead’s Okay% and groundball charges within the minors, and Snead’s 3.39 ERA over 273 1/3 minor league frames can also be encouraging, even when the outcomes haven’t been there with Triple-A Las Vegas within the final two seasons. Snead’s management particularly has change into a difficulty, calling again to some issues he had earlier in his profession in issuing free passes.
Assuming Snead hits the open market, the 29-year-old will catch on someplace with a group in search of left-handed aid depth, or Snead may maybe be a candidate to discover his choices with a group abroad. A reunion with Oakland appears potential, because the A’s determine to be in search of cheap aid choices and may pivot again to a well-recognized face.
