A’s to call up both Nos. 1 and 3 prospects (source)

Tyler Soderstrom and Zack Gelof have lengthy been seen as potential franchise cornerstones of the A’s. For each, the time is now.

Soderstrom — ranked Oakland’s No. 1 prospect and the No. 34 general prospect by MLB Pipeline — and A’s No. 3 prospect Gelof are each getting known as as much as the Majors, a supply advised MLB.com. Both are anticipated be part of the membership forward of Friday’s sequence opener towards the Twins on the Coliseum.

Soderstrom, 21, has flexed his muscle at Triple-A Las Vegas this season, main the Aviators with 20 homers together with 59 RBIs and a .839 OPS in 69 video games. The catcher/first baseman participated within the All-Star Futures Game at T-Mobile Park in Seattle final week.

Gelof, 23, is batting .304 with a team-leading .930 OPS at Las Vegas with 12 homers, 21 doubles, 44 RBIs and 20 stolen bases. The infielder’s fast ascension to the massive leagues will come virtually precisely two years to the day he was drafted by Oakland within the second spherical of the 2021 MLB Draft.

Soderstrom and Gelof headline a gaggle of a number of prospects anticipated to assist kind the franchise’s subsequent wave of successful baseball. For a rebuilding A’s membership that struggled via the primary half, their arrival represents pleasure for the second half and hope {that a} new chapter is getting underway.