The As are designating corner infielder for a signment, reports Jeff Pa san of ESPN ( ). MLB.coms Martn Gallegos reports ( ) that the As are recalling outfielder from Triple-A Las Vegas in what is presumably the corresponding move. Oakland hasnt announced the transactions, which will likely be made official tomorrow with the As off tonight. Itll end a brief stint in Oakland for Davis, who landed with the As in somewhat controversial fashion. He and the Giants went to an arbitration hearing over the offseason. Davis won that hearing and was set for a $6.9MM salary. Arbitration salaries arent fully guaranteed until Opening Day unle s the team and player agree to terms before the hearing, though. The Giants signed a couple weeks into Spring Training. Rather than push Davis to the bench, the Giants released him to get out from under most of the money. San Francisco paid him 30 days termination pay, around $1.1MM, and sent him Alec Burks Jersey to the open market. Davis extremely late entry into free agency didnt do him any favors. He signed with the As on a $2.5MM deal that contained an additional $1MM in incentives. His run in green and gold didnt go especially well. Davis lost a couple weeks to an adductor strain and appeared in 39 games. He hit .236/.304/.366 with four homers in 135 trips to the plate. Thats e sentially league average production in a pitcher-friendly home park and a down overall run environment. Yet Davis needs to be an above-average hitter to provide much overall value. Hes a limited baserunner and defender who has spent the majority of his time at first base this season. Davis has tallied 97 innings at the hot corner and logged 148 frames at first base. His defensive grades havent been great at either spot. While this years workload is an exceedingly small sample, thats in line with Davis overall track record as a middling defensive third baseman. Neverthele s, the Fullerton product has been a solid regular for most of his career. He was an above-average hitter each season from 2019-22, running a cumulative .276/.363/.457 slash in more than 1200 plate appearances between the Mets and Giants. Over that stretch, Davis walked at a strong 10.5% clip and showed above-average power to offset a 27.3% strikeout rate. He had a league average .248/.325/.413 line with 18 homers in a career-high 144 games in his final season with the Giants. At the time they signed him, the As planned on Davis playing regularly at third base and hitting well enough to be a midseason trade candidate. He has been nudged to a bench role in recent weeks. jumped Davis for the starting third base job with an excellent showing in May. Toro hasnt hit at all in June, yet the As have stuck with him at the top of the lineup. He is under arbitration control through 2026. , one of the top offensive talents in the organization, is playing regularly at first base. Soderstrom came up as a bat-first catching prospect but seems like a better long-term fit at first thanks to the presence of . The As will have five days from the time of Davis official DFA to explore trade po sibilities. (Players can spend up to a week in DFA limbo, but teams need to start the 48-hour waiver proce s within five days if they cant line up a trade.) Any return would be modest, but its not out of the question the As find someone willing to take on part or all of the approximate $1.38MM still remaining on his contract. If there are no takers, Davis will become a free agent in a weeks time either via release or rejecting an outright a signment to the minors. There are a few teams that could look to add a corner bat. The Yankees lost for upwards of a month to a forearm fracture. The Red Sox havent gotten much out of at first base, although they could just wait things out with potentially a few weeks from returning. The Astros released last week and are relying on a / platoon at first base. The Nationals and Pirates havent gotten much from the position, while the Reds might be without righty-swinging first baseman for the rest of the season. John Starks Jersey