The A’s added to their starting rotation Monday, acquiring left-hander Mike Minor — pending medical exchange — from the Texas Rangers for two players to be named later, not currently in Oakland’s 60-man pool.
Here are 10 things to know about Minor, 32, who is in his ninth big league season and is in the final year of a three-year, $28 million contract he signed with the Rangers in Dec. 2017.
VANDY BOY: Minor starred for three seasons at Vanderbilt before he was a first round draft pick (seventh overall) by the Atlanta Braves in 2009.