The A’s have made a move to help a weary bullpen, promoting minor league starter Arnold Leon from Triple-A Nashville.
Leon was called up for a day last year, but he has never thrown a pitch in a Major League game.
The move has not been officially announced, but Leon is expected to join the club in Anaheim for Wednesday’s game against the Angels. It’s expected that to make room for Leon, the A’s will send down R.J. Alvarez, threw 48 pitches and gave up seven runs, six earned while getting just three outs Tuesday.
The A’s like Leon, a 26-year-old right-hander, but they didn’t give him much of a look this spring, in part because he was pitching most of the winter for the Tomateros of Culiacan, helping them to the Caribbean series after a 10-7 season at Triple-A.