Felix Doubront joined the A’s Sunday, a couple of days after the A’s picked him up from Toronto in a cash deal and was immediately put into the Oakland bullpen.
There had been thought of putting the left-handed Doubront into the rotation, with 77 of his 107 career games over the last six years for the Red Sox, Cubs and Blue Jays have been as a starter.
The A’s have traded one left-handed starter, Scott Kazmir, and have moved another into the bullpen, Drew Pomeranz. With Doubront moving into relief duty, the A’s will have an all-right-handed rotation for the first time this season.