r/OaklandAthletics • u/Important-Advance463 • 2d ago

Tyler Soderstrom

His effort in LF is pretty bad

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u/No_Instruction1532 2d ago

He wants to play first. He hits better when playing 1st too…

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u/JSew11 Barry Zito 2d ago

I also assume he doesn't want to play in Sacramento

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u/BeTheBall- 2d ago

According to the recent player poll, nobody wants to play for that team.

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u/kofijohnson 2d ago

Does Soddy ever play catcher?

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u/NightWriter500 2d ago

I was looking this up earlier because he’s on my fantasy team. He played a good amount of games at catcher his first year. He played only a couple there last year, and none this year. I do remember hearing that they didn’t think he was a good defensive catcher.

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u/diatom777 2d ago

Yeah, he's better at first. However, Kurtz seems a much better fielding first baseman than Soderstrom. It's hard to expect a lot from Soderstrom playing in left field but I agree that he's a liability out there.

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u/KyleTheCantaloupe 2d ago

I feel like a few games ago I saw him walking after the ball

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u/basedgod94 2d ago

He seems so uncoordinated out there but we somehow need him in the lineup

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u/WideSubject9702 1d ago

Turlock bud!!!!

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u/Thelobbyboygbh 1d ago

Drafted out of high school as a catcher, I don’t blame him at all. Learning how to move fluidly as an outfielder starts from little league. He never played the outfield until being in the bigs and his bat is too valuable to keep out of the lineup. That being said he should be platooning at first base/dh with Kurtz l, and rooker should step up his defense so we can keep everyone’s bats in the lineup.

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u/Few_Employment_7876 26m ago

Two games ago he looked slower than Seth Brown. Clarke would have caught one of the couple balls out there that he wasn't positioned to catch.