San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
A’s Gott to undergo Tommy John surgery, will miss season
The Oakland Athletics’ bullpen took a hit Friday when the team announced right-hander Trevor Gott would undergo Tommy John surgery and is expected to miss the 2024 season.
The 31-year-old veteran reliever went 0-5 with a 4.19 ERA over 64 appearances between the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets last season.
Gott, an eight-year MLB veteran who has a 16-15 record with a 4.65 ERA across 255 major league appearances, joined the A’s in December after signing a one-year contract.
The reliever spent the 2023 season with the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets, going 0-5 with a 4.19 ERA with a save, 62 strikeouts and 19 walks over 58 innings.
In other news, Chicago Cubs left-hander Justin Steele departed his final tuneup for opening day after he was struck on his left leg by a comebacker on Friday.
Steele was hit by Luis Matos’ leadoff grounder for San Francisco in the second inning of their Cactus League game. He was replaced by Jose Romero.
Steele didn’t sound too concerned about the play.
He posted on social media that he was OK, but his NCAA Tournament bracket was busted.
The 28-year-old Steele is slated to start on Thursday at Texas on opening day. He went 16-5 with a 3.06 ERA last year in a breakout performance.
Also, Carlos Carrasco is all the way back with the Guardians.
The popular right-hander, diagnosed with leukemia during his first stint with Cleveland, has been told he’s got a spot on the team’s opening-day roster after attending spring training with a minor league deal.
Carrasco went 88-73 in 242 games in 11 seasons for Cleveland before being traded to the New York Mets in the Francisco Lindor deal. The 37-year-old returned to his starting point and made the club.
Tournament on Friday in Spokane, Wash.
For the second straight year, the Ivy League Tournament champion took down one of the pre-tournament favorites — busting plenty of March Madness brackets once again.
Last year it was Princeton toppling Arizona. This time, it was Yale's turn.
In other Friday games, Zach Edey had the first 30point, 20-rebound game in the Tournament since 1995, leading top-seeded Purdue Boilermakers past 16thseeded Grambling State 7850 in Indianapolis . ... Wade Taylor IV scored 25 points and No. 9 seed Texas A&M sent eighth-seeded Nebraska home still looking for its first NCAA Tournament victory, beating the Huskers 98-83 in Memphis, Tenn . ... Mark Sears led the highest-scoring offense in the country with 30 points, and fourth-seeded Alabama had no problem making shots in Spokane, racing past No. 13 seed Charleston 109-96. Soccer: A player collapsed and died while training with his Bolivian top-flight club Real Santa Cruz on Friday.
Real Santa Cruz said Colombian striker Guillermo Denis Beltrán died of respiratory arrest. He was 24.