The As optioned several names to Triple-A Las Vegas last night, including outfielder , rotation hopeful , infielder , and righties and . Infielder and lefty , both former big leaguers in camp on non-roster deals, were also rea signed to minor league camp. All of those cuts were announced by the team. Ruiz, 26, was the Athletics primary center fielder in 2023 and swiped a gaudy 67 bases that season but did so while batting only .254/.309/.345 in 132 games (497 plate appearances). Though he was one of several key players acquired in the Athletics slate of rebuild-focused trades regrettably coming over in a three-way deal that sent star catcher , whom the As couldve kept, to the Brewers Ruiz has fallen a ways down the teams depth chart since that original acquisition. Injury played a role in his drop down the pecking order, as he mi sed the bulk of the 2024 campaign with a wrist strain. Ruiz logged 29 games and 65 plate appearances in the majors and delivered only a feeble . Jorge Alfaro Jersey 200/.270/.382 output at the plate. He hit .345/.425/.596 in 73 minor league plate appearances last year, but hes long had eye-catching numbers in the upper minors that havent carried over to MLB, where hes a .243/.297/.343 hitter in 598 plate appearances. Ruiz didnt do himself any favors this spring, hitting .121/.171/.152 in 35 trips to the plate during Cactus League play. The As locked up on a and saw turn in a breakout performance at the plate last season. That leaves two of their three outfield spots spoken for in the long-term. Bleday is miscast as a center fielder, so perhaps theres room for Ruiz to work his way back into that role, but prospects like , and are all on the cusp of MLB readine s as well. At least for the early stages of the 2025 campaign, it looks like the As will go with a left field platoon of and . In the rotation, Ginn heads back to Triple-A on the heels of a tough spring. The rightys final outing was excellent four innings of one-run ball with seven punchouts but he still served up 13 runs (11 earned) in 13 innings while walking 12.5% of his opponents. The 25-year-old is a former second-round pick whom the As acquired in the trade sending to the Mets. He was hit relatively hard between Double-A and Triple-A last year but turned in a decent blend of strikeout, walk and ground-ball rates (21.2%, 8.8% and 54.1%, respectively). He held his own with a 4.24 ERA in his first 34 MLB frames last summer as well. With Ginn being sent out, it increasingly appears as though the Athletics season-opening rotation will include , , , and . A late injury could always change that, and the As still have one po sible rotation alternative in camp in the form of , whos had a decent Cactus League run this spring. Hernaiz, acquired in the trade of to Baltimore, became a long shot for the roster after the As signed both and to major league contracts this winter. and are lined up in the middle infield, while Urias and Urshela can handle third base and move around to multiple infield positions. Hernaiz hit well in Triple-A last year (.331/.376/.493) but mustered only a .192/.261/.242 line in his first 135 MLB plate appearances. His spring output wasnt much more encouraging .194/.302/.306 in 43 plate appearances so hell had back to the minors for more work. Nick Pivetta Jersey