Clarke, 26, hasn’t played with the A’s since he injured his foot on April 20. He then suffered a significant hamstring strain during a triple-A rehab game in May that further delayed his return. <\/p>\n
After making his big-league debut last season, the Toronto native quickly made a name for himself as one of the best defenders in the sport by constantly making highlight-reel plays.<\/p>\n
But while his glove was among the league’s best, his bat has yet to close the gap.<\/p>\n
In 22 MLB games this season, Clarke has a slash line of .170\/.228\/.189 with just nine total hits. He also struck out 24 times, while walking just four times.<\/p>\n
However, he did hit .344 with two homers and a 1.055 OPS over his latest rehab stint, which he will hope to carry over to the big leagues.<\/p>\n
Clarke will join an A’s squad that sits tied for last in the AL West with a 53-85 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clarke, 26, hasn’t played with the A’s since he injured his foot on April 20. He then suffered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-879853","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\/879853","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=879853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}