First things first as the A’s head back into getting ready for a 2020 season: They have a pool of players from which to draw.
The team, however, is not releasing all the names on this list for procedural reasons: Top pick Tyler Soderstrom, an 18-year-old catcher from Turlock, hasn’t been signed yet. Soderstrom’s signing will be announced Monday, according to multiple sources.
High-profile prospect Robert Puason, a 17-year-old shortstop from the Dominican Republic, was reported to be among the A’s pool players, according to Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com, but also was not on the list released Sunday, likely because he is traveling to the U.S. Inviting top young players such as Soderstrom and Puason to the player-pool camp, which was expected to be in Stockton, will enable them to get instruction and some simulated games when they might otherwise be limited in their development this year.
Two other top shortstop prospects who were in the A’s spring camp will be in the alternate site for the same reason: last year’s top pick, Logan Davidson, and defensive wiz Nick Allen. So will two who weren’t in spring camp: 2019 second-rounder Tyler Baum, a right-hander, and fourth-rounder Kyle McCann, a catcher.
Others not on the list because they are traveling to the U.S. include outfielder Luis Barrera and right-handed pitchers Wandisson Charles and Miguel Romero. All of the players not announced Sunday will go to the team’s alternate site — which is more uncertain than it was last week. The Chronicle has learned that new COVID-19 orders announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday that include San Joaquin County, and spikes in positive coronavirus tests in the area, have the team rethinking its use of the Class A Ports’ stadium, at least in the short term.
Teams have been encouraged to use nearby facilities for their alternate camps because MLB’s 2020 protocols call for a site close enough to not require commercial air travel. The A’s already had been investigating other options while trying to work out a deal with the city of Stockton for use of Banner Island Ballpark.
The group of 42 players heading to Oakland includes a number of nonroster players, including catcher Carlos Pérez, infielders Ryan Goins and Nate Orf, and pitchers Lucas Luetge, Jaime Schultz and Jordan Weems are among the pool players, and all will go to Oakland rather than the alternate site. Outfielder Skye Bolt, infielder Sheldon Neuse and pitchers Paul Blackburn and Daniel Gossett, all optioned to the minors before spring training was shut down in March, also will be in Oakland.
Several 40-man-roster players, such as outfielder Dustin Fowler and starters Daulton Jefferies, Grant Holmes and James Kaprielian, will go to the alternate site, along with some nonroster invitees: McCann, outfielders Greg Deichmann and Buddy Reed and pitchers Tyler Baum, Parker Dunshee and Brian Howard.
Susan Slusser covers the A’s for The San Francisco Chronicle. Email: sslusser@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @susanslusser
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