{"id":268597,"date":"2025-11-07T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:33:08","slug":"athletics-austin-wynns-avoid-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268597\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics, Austin Wynns Avoid Arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletics have agreed to a one-year, $1.1MM deal with catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wynnsau01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Wynns<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/1986569805399531570\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a>. The team has yet to officially announce the move. Wynns is represented by Klutch Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Swartz\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/10\/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arbitration projections<\/a> had Wynns receiving $1.8MM. While he fell short of that mark, his deal includes some incentives, notes Murray.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics acquired Wynns in June after the Reds designated him for assignment. They were in need of catching depth after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/langesh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shea Langeliers<\/a> went down with an oblique injury. Wynns hit .222 in 22 games with the team. An abdominal strain in early August cost him the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Wynns was drafted by Baltimore in 2013. He debuted with the Orioles in 2018. After a few seasons as a part-time player, Wynns elected free agency. He latched on with the Phillies in March 2022. Wynns was dealt to San Francisco in June of that season. The Giants gave him his longest opportunity to date, running him out there for 66 games. Wynns passed through multiple organizations over the next couple of years, finally landing in Cincinnati in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Wynns had several productive offensive seasons in the minors, but it never translated to major-league success. That changed when he got to the Reds. Wynns went 7-for-19 with four extra-base hits in his first year in Cincinnati, though a shoulder injury cut his season short. He posted a 35.7% hard-hit rate in that brief sample, which was more than 8% better than his previous career-best mark. Wynns maintained those gains in 2025, slashing .400\/.442\/.700 in 18 games with the Reds. He wasn\u2019t as productive with the Athletics, but in 40 games between the two teams, he notched a hefty 46.6% hard-hit rate. Wynns\u2019 barrel rate was an excellent 9.6% over 110 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Langeliers is coming off a breakout campaign and will handle the majority of the catching reps. If Wynns can keep up the improvement he\u2019s shown at the plate, he\u2019ll be a serviceable backup option. The Athletics may need to add a bit more depth at the position after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/rangers-claim-willie-maciver-michel-otanez.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">losing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/macivwi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Willie MacIver<\/a> to the Rangers via waiver claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics have agreed to a one-year, $1.1MM deal with catcher Austin Wynns, reports Robert Murray of FanSided.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,156514,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-268597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-austin-wynns","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}