{"id":36112,"date":"2025-07-31T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36112\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:00:09","slug":"kotsay-mason-miller-unavailable-tonight-not-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36112\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotsay: Mason Miller &#8220;Unavailable Tonight,&#8221; Not Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athletics closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=millema03,miller005mas&amp;search=Mason+Miller&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mason Miller<\/a> was \u201cunavailable tonight,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MartinJGallegos\/status\/1950778369911792084\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to manager Mark Kotsay<\/a>, who also said the decision was not injury-related.\u00a0 The A\u2019s held a 5-3 lead over the Mariners entering the ninth inning at Sutter Health Park tonight and elected to stick with rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/perkija01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack Perkins<\/a> rather than go to the flamethrowing closer Miller, who hasn\u2019t pitched since Saturday.\u00a0 The heavy implication is that a trade may be in the works for Miller, who is known to be of interest to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/07\/padres-interested-in-mason-miller-continuing-to-pursue-jarren-duran.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Padres<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/07\/yankees-mets-phillies-have-discussed-mason-miller-with-as.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yankees<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets and Phillies were linked to Miller earlier today.\u00a0 The Phillies have since acquired Jhoan Duran from the Twins, while the Mets subsequently added Tyler Rogers and Ryan Helsley (plus Gregory Soto five days ago).\u00a0 The list of potential suitors for Miller is likely extensive, though the young talent required to get him will be significant.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics closer Mason Miller was \u201cunavailable tonight,\u201d according to manager Mark Kotsay, who also said the decision was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-36112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}