Shea Langeliers and Brent Rooker each homered while combining for six hits and eight RBIs, propelling the Oakland Athletics over the visiting Texas Rangers 9-4 on Wednesday afternoon in the opener of a doubleheader.
There’s no stopping Shea Langeliersid you’re the Texas Rangers The Texas Rangers scored four runs but the Oakland Athletics scored nine runs. It’s not that Oakland catcher Shea Langeliers has had a particularly good season so far this year, but you would not even conceive that as a possibility if you’d watched him play against the Rangers.
No need to beat around the bush on this one, the situation in Oakland is a disaster. The team was dreadful on the field last year and the situation off the field has never been more bleak.
Oakland Athletics catcher Shea Langeliers' Texas homecoming has been filled with highlights so far. On Tuesday, he became the first starting catcher in franchise history in almost a century to hit three home runs in a game.
Shea Langeliers hit three home runs, including a two-run blast in the top of the ninth inning that gave the Oakland A's their third consecutive victory, 4-3 over the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday.
ARLINGTON, Tex. (Apr 9) — The Texas Rangers were narrowly defeated by the Oakland Athletics, 4–3, in their series opener on Tuesday. The Athletics rode the bat of catcher Shea Langeliers, who had a three-homer game.
Shea Langeliers hit three home runs, including a two-run blast in the top of the ninth inning that gave the Oakland A's their third consecutive victory, 4-3, over the Texas Rangers in the opening game of a three-game series in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday night.
With the demotion of Tyler Soderstrom on Sunday night, the Oakland A's need to add a catcher to the 40-man roster to provide Shea Langeliers with a backup behind the dish.
You don't have to live in the Bay Area to know the Oakland Athletics are coming off of a historically hellacious 2023 campaign. So it may come as a surprise that oddsmakers don't think the A's will be quite as bad this season.
Langeliers impressed in his first full season behind the dish, and he looks to have all the makings of a solid two-way catcher going forward. Shea Langeliers' 2023 season was his second with the A’s, but the first season in which the catching duties ran through him after Sean Murphy was traded before the season.
Shea Langeliers highlighted a four-run fifth inning with a three-run double as the Oakland Athletics stunned the visiting Tampa Bay Rays for a sixth straight win Monday night, 4-3 in the opener of a four-game series.
After the A's traded away Sean Murphy this off-season, it was apparent that Shea Langeliers would be the team's primary catcher in 2023. The A's also received
The Oakland A's have two catchers on their 40-man roster: Shea Langeliers and Manny Piña. Langeliers became the team's everyday catcher after the Sean Murphy trade, which also happened to bring the 35-year-old backstop, Piña, to Oakland.
When the A's traded Matt Olson to the Atlanta Braves before the 2022 season, Shea Langeliers was arguably the biggest piece of the return in that deal.
Over the past 18 months, the A’s have traded away most of the core players on the roster as a means of stripping down payroll. While much of that teardown was orchestrated either last offseason or at the summer deadline, it continued with the three-team deal that sent Sean Murphy to Atlanta last month.
A’s catcher Sean Murphy stands as one of the likeliest trade candidates of the offseason, and Oakland is unsurprisingly receiving a fairly wide array of interest in the former Gold Glover.
Langeliers was one of four players Oakland received from the Braves in the Matt Olson trade this spring. Arguably the headliner of the deal, the righty-hitting backstop is regarded by most prospect evaluators as a potential above-average regular behind the dish.
One of four minor leaguers acquired from the Braves in the Matt Olson blockbuster, Langeliers was arguably the headlining piece of the return.
Langeliers finished 1-for-2 on the night, helping lead the AL to a victory over the NL, 6-4.
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