MESA, Ariz. — Jeremy Bleich, one of Stanford’s top pitchers in the mid-2000s, was a first-round pick of the Yankees in 2008.
Then he fell off the map.
Now the left-hander is in camp with the A’s as a nonroster invitee — and, after several years of struggling to come back from a shoulder injury, he is pitching like he did a decade ago.
“I know he was a highly touted prospect, and it’s really cool to see him back to being the kind of pitcher he was when he was a major prospect,” said former A’s outfielder Sam Fuld, a close friend of Bleich’s.