Overview
- Multiple outlets report the Athletics are hiring Cam Castro from the Milwaukee Brewers to be general manager and the No. 2 executive under president of baseball operations Taylor Smith.
- Castro rose through the Brewers’ development system after joining in 2019 and earlier worked at Driveline and as head coach at Lake Erie College, giving him a deep background in pitching performance work.
- The hire targets a clear organizational problem: the A’s have produced many homegrown position players but have struggled for more than a decade to develop major‑league‑caliber pitchers.
- Castro is expected to focus on improving several young arms already in Oakland’s system, including Gage Jump, Luis Morales, Kade Morris, Braden Nett and Jamie Arnold, rather than delivering an immediate turnaround.
- The move completes the front‑office rebuild that began with Taylor Smith and signals a multiyear effort to modernize development systems and set roster and payroll plans before the Las Vegas stadium era.