{"id":752912,"date":"2026-07-16T01:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/752912\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:45:14","slug":"as-designate-aaron-civale-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/752912\/","title":{"rendered":"A’s Designate Aaron Civale For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The A\u2019s are designating veteran starter Aaron Civale<\/a> for assignment, according to the team\u2019s transaction log<\/a> at MLB.com. Righty reliever\u00a0Yunior Tur<\/a> is being selected onto the major league roster in his place.<\/p>\n

The log also indicates that the A\u2019s will recall southpaw Brady Basso<\/a> from Triple-A Las Vegas and activate recently claimed<\/a> utilityman\u00a0Donovan Walton<\/a>. First baseman\u00a0Joey Meneses<\/a>, catcher Brian Serven<\/a> and lefty\u00a0Mason Barnett<\/a> are being optioned to Triple-A.<\/p>\n

That leaves one opening on the active roster for another position player. Darell Hernaiz<\/a> is the only position player on optional assignment who could be recalled for Friday\u2019s series opener against the Nationals;\u00a0Max Muncy<\/a> needs to stay down until at least Saturday unless he\u2019s being brought up to replace someone going on the injured list. They could add a hitter who\u2019s not currently on the 40-man roster and transfer Brent Rooker<\/a> to the 60-day injured list if they want to keep Hernaiz and Muncy in the minors.<\/p>\n

Civale\u2019s DFA makes for a disappointing end to his $6MM free agent deal. The righty took the ball 16 times and turned in a 5.42 earned run average across 74 2\/3 innings. He also missed a couple weeks with shoulder tendinitis that sidelined him between mid-May and June 17. Civale has taken the loss in all five of his appearances since coming back, allowing 19 earned runs in as many innings.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s have plummeted in the standings amidst a nine-game losing streak and dropping 13 of their last 14. They\u2019re now third from the bottom in the American League and positioned as deadline sellers<\/a>. They\u2019ll technically still have five days to explore a Civale trade once they officially announce the DFA. His recent performance was going to diminish trade interest anyhow, and the likelier outcome is that he\u2019ll be released within the next week.<\/p>\n

Civale was a decent mid-rotation starter early in his career with Cleveland. He has bounced around as a strike-throwing fifth\/sixth starter over the past few seasons. Civale\u2019s fringy stuff doesn\u2019t play well in a hitter-friendly park like Sacramento\u2019s Sutter Health Park, where he allowed two home runs per nine innings with an ERA approaching 7.00. He had a 4.25 ERA with a 20% strikeout rate over 42 1\/3 frames on the road. If he is released, there\u2019s a decent chance he\u2019ll be able to find a big league deal for the league minimum salary on a team with a more pitcher-friendly home venue.<\/p>\n

Jacob Lopez<\/a> pitched in front of Civale as an opener in his most recent appearance on Friday. The A\u2019s could build him back up to take the fifth rotation spot behind Gage Jump<\/a>,\u00a0Jeffrey Springs<\/a>,\u00a0J.T. Ginn<\/a> and\u00a0Jack Perkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll also get their first look at Tur, a 6\u20196\u2033 righty nearing his 27th birthday. The Cuban-born hurler didn\u2019t enter pro ball until he was 23 years old. He had a nice 2025 season to put himself on the radar, with Baseball America<\/a> and Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs<\/a> each ranking him at the back half of the team\u2019s top 30 prospects over the winter.<\/p>\n

Tur doesn\u2019t have pristine command and moved to the bullpen this year. He\u2019s still walking 12% of opponents but has fanned 29% of batters faced behind a fastball that sits in the 96 mph range. He also throws a cutter, slider and splitter but is most reliant on the heater \u2014 which scouting reports credit with plus life at the top of the zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A\u2019s are designating veteran starter Aaron Civale for assignment, according to the team\u2019s transaction log at MLB.com.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[2132,537,5,4,3226,72499],"class_list":["post-752912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-aaron-civale","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-yunior-tur"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116927130742104947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}