The Oakland A’s got to add a 27th player to their active roster yesterday to help with their doubleheader, but that means someone has to go down today to reduce the roster back to 26.
That odd player out is reliever Jordan Weems, who was optioned to the alternate site, the team announced Wednesday morning.
Usually when a team adds the extra player for a doubleheader, they do so by calling someone up from the minors and then sending the same player down at the end of the day, but the A’s took a different path this time.