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Kozma was released by the Athletics on Tuesday. Kozma had his contract selected by the Athletics for the final weekend of the regular season, and he elected free agency after being removed from the 40-man roster. He spent the rest of the season at Triple-A and hit .244/.307/.337 with four homers, 40 RBI, 24 runs and six stolen bases in 113 games.
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Kozma's contract was selected by the Athletics on Friday. Kozma gives Oakland added infield depth for the final series of the season with Vimael Machin (illness) hitting the injured list. The 33-year-old owns an unimpressive .215/.278/.291 career slash line over parts of seven major-league seasons, the last of which came back in 2018.
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Kozma was reassigned to minor-league camp Saturday. Kozma had a strong performance early in spring training and hit .282 with one home run, 11 runs and eight RBI in 24 Cactus League appearances. However, he should serve as organizational depth at Triple-A Las Vegas for most of the season.
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Kozma, who's on a minor-league contract with the Athletics, is 6-for-14 with two doubles, a home run and five RBI across 10 Cactus League games. While it's counterintuitive to think the 32-year-old has finally figured out big-league pitching after mostly struggling over parts of seven previous seasons, his spring numbers are undeniably eye-catching thus far. Kozma did hit over .300 in two separate stints with the Cardinals back in 2012 and 2014, but that sample constituted just 40 games and he slashed an abysmal .217/.275/.273 in his most extensive taste of MLB action (448 plate appearances) in 2013. Although Kozma is likely to spend most of the season at Triple-A Las Vegas as organizational depth, he could conceivably alter expectations if he continues wielding a similarly hot bat the rest of spring.
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Kozma signed a minor-league contract with the Athletics on Wednesday, Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Kozma appears set to serve as organizational depth for Oakland in 2021 after spending the 2020 season with Atlanta's alternate squad. The 32-year-old hasn't appeared in the majors since 2018, and he slashed .263/.340/.414 with seven home runs and 51 RBI with Triple-A Toledo in 2019.
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