Pinch hitter Austin Wynns drove in Colby Thomas with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as the visiting Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 on Tuesday.
Another power-hitting prospect is coming to northern California. The Athletics promoted Colby Thomas, a third-round pick three years ago, to the Majors on June 30.
The Athletics are in a perpetual state of calling up their top prospects. When one graduates, they just call up the next. Last year they called up Jacob Wilson, who was still a prospect when the 2025 season began.
The starting lineups for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game are set to be revealed on July 6. While the fans have their say for the starting lineups, the most deserving All-Star starters could be very different than the actual starters.
With summer heating up and the trade deadline approaching, the prospect pipeline will pick up as teams look to see how their top prospects handle the big leagues. Here are three players in the American League who should be next in line.
The Athletics have escaped most of spring training without much in the way of injuries, which is the goal of every MLB team during this time of year. That changed a little bit on Saturday.
Two of the Athletics' highly touted prospects, No. 3 Colby Thomas and No. 4 Mason Barnett moved into the top three and top five in the newly released MLB Pipeline rankings, respectively.