You knew this post was coming.
With Rajai Davis out with a hamstring injury, the A’s are slightly short staffed in the outfield. Even with Davis around, you could argue they’re short staffed, often relying on one of their platoon outfielders to play against their like handed counterparts. Davis should be back roughly when his ten day stint is up, but hammy strains like to loiter, and it’s possible the now 36 year old will need more time to heal.
That brings us to Leonys Martin, recently DFA’d former Seattle Mariner. If you get DFA’d by a club struggling as mightily as the M’s, things probably aren’t going well for you personally, and that was indeed the case for Martin.