LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The Athletics are bringing championship experience to their front office as the franchise prepares for its permanent move to Las Vegas in 2028.<\/p>\n
Cam Castro was formally introduced Thursday as the team\u2019s new general manager, joining recently hired president of baseball operations Taylor Smith in leading the next chapter of A\u2019s baseball.<\/p>\n
Castro, 36, arrives fresh off a World Series championship with the Milwaukee Brewers, where he spent eight seasons working his way through the organization.<\/p>\n
His journey began in 2019 as a minor league pitching coach before he moved into roles overseeing pitching development and eventually became Milwaukee\u2019s senior vice president of player development and performance.<\/p>\n
Now, he\u2019ll look to bring that experience to an Athletics organization hoping to build a consistent winner.<\/p>\n
Pitching development could be one of his biggest priorities.<\/p>\n
The A\u2019s finished the 2026 season with a 64-98 record, while their pitching staff posted a 5.43 ERA, the worst in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n
Castro\u2019s background in developing young pitchers could prove especially valuable as the organization looks to strengthen its roster ahead of the move to Southern Nevada.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll work alongside Smith, who was hired in October after previously holding front-office positions with the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n
Smith said Thursday that Castro will oversee both major and minor league development, including the organization\u2019s coaching and player-performance systems. The two will also collaborate on roster decisions and the club\u2019s long-term strategy.<\/p>\n
The Athletics have one more season scheduled in West Sacramento before their planned move into a new ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip in 2028.<\/p>\n
For Castro, the challenge now is taking what he learned with a championship organization in Milwaukee and helping build a foundation for sustained success in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The Athletics are bringing championship experience to their front office as the franchise prepares…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-907739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}