{"id":298493,"date":"2025-11-21T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298493\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:52:08","slug":"as-sign-ben-bowden-geoff-hartlieb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298493\/","title":{"rendered":"A’s Sign Ben Bowden, Geoff Hartlieb"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletics agreed to minor league contracts with relievers\u00a0Ben Bowden<\/a> and\u00a0Geoff Hartlieb<\/a>. Matt Eddy of Baseball America<\/a> noted Bowden\u2019s signing on their latest transaction roundup, while the Hartlieb move is reflected on the MLB.com transaction log<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bowden\u2019s deal is a re-signing, as he spent the 2025 season with the A\u2019s. The 31-year-old southpaw made 11 appearances, allowing six runs (five earned) across 10 2\/3 frames. He struck out seven and issued five walks before suffering a season-ending lat strain. While that cost him his 40-man roster spot, the A\u2019s like him enough as a depth option to bring him back. Bowden pitched well at Triple-A Las Vegas before his call-up, working 39 2\/3 innings of 1.36 ERA ball while striking out a quarter of opposing hitters.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s could lose\u00a0Sean Newcomb<\/a> to free agency. That leaves them with\u00a0Hogan Harris<\/a> as the only left-hander locked into the bullpen.\u00a0Brady Basso<\/a> and swingman\u00a0Ken Waldichuk<\/a> are the only other southpaws on the 40-man roster who aren\u2019t set for rotation roles. The A\u2019s will probably bring in a left-hander (or re-sign Newcomb), but there\u2019s a decent path for Bowden right now to compete for a season-opening bullpen job.<\/p>\n

Hartlieb, 31, is likely to begin the season in Triple-A. The journeyman righty made four MLB appearances between the Yankees and Tigers this past season. He gave up eight runs in 3 1\/3 innings and has a near-8.00 ERA in his MLB career. Hartlieb posted strong underlying numbers in Triple-A, fanning 27.6% of opponents against a 7.6% walk rate over 53 1\/3 frames. That gets him another non-roster opportunity for what\u2019ll be his seventh Triple-A season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics agreed to minor league contracts with relievers\u00a0Ben Bowden and\u00a0Geoff Hartlieb. Matt Eddy of Baseball America noted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,170806,24056,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ben-bowden","11":"tag-geoff-hartlieb","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298493","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=298493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}