Brent Rooker Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 3" / 225 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 11/1/1994 (29)
- Experience
- 4
- College
- Mississippi State
Brent Rooker Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Brent Rooker News
Oakland Athletics outfielder/designated hitter Brent Rooker will take a seat on the bench on Wednesday versus the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates. Catcher Shea Langeliers will move to designated hitter and will bat cleanup, while Kyle McCann will do the catching while hitting seventh against Pirates right-hander Quinn Priester. The 29-year-old Rooker will get the day off after starting in each of the team's last 11 games since coming off the 10-day injured list on April 19. In those 11 contests, he's gone 8-for-38 (.211) with three home runs, two doubles, eight RBI and a stolen base. Rooker has five dingers so far in 2024 and has added 13 RBI in his 68 at-bats. Langeliers is hitting just .176 (16-for-91) but does have six long balls, which makes him attractive in DFS at the weak catcher position while in the cleanup spot against a young pitcher.
The Oakland A's have activated Brent Rooker (abdomen) from the injured list and have optioned 22-year-old infielder Darell Hernaiz to Triple-A Las Vegas. Despite breaking out with 30 home runs in the 2023 season, Rooker was not being used as an everyday outfielder to begin the season. He has hit just .200 on his young season but has still clubbed a pair of home runs across his first eight games of the campaign. Rooker will likely see consistent playing time upon his return but the A's outfield has gotten more crowded with his return and the promotion of the hot-hitting Esteury Ruiz from Triple-A. The team also has Seth Brown, JJ Bleday, and Lawrence Butler roaming the outfield.
Oakland Athletics outfielder Brent Rooker (abdomen), whose injured-list placement is retroactive to April 8, has started total-body workouts and will begin taking some dry swings in the next few days. Manager Mark Kotsay is hoping that Rooker can return to the team when he's eligible to come off the IL on April 17. The 29-year-old left last Sunday's game against the Detroit Tigers with an injury to his costochondral cartilage and he was put on the IL last Thursday. It sounds like it could be a short stay for the outfielder, though. After making his first All-Star team in 2023, Rooker started off the 2024 season by going just 6-for-30 (.200) with two home runs, five RBI and 16 strikeouts in his first eight games before getting hurt.
Batting Order
1 | Lawrence Butler |
2 | Tyler Nevin |
3 | JJ Bleday |
4 | Shea Langeliers |
5 | Abraham Toro |
6 | Seth Brown |
7 | Kyle McCann |
8 | Darell Hernaiz |
9 | Ryan Noda |
Brent Rooker Stats
Last 10 Games
Batting Order
1 | Lawrence Butler |
2 | Tyler Nevin |
3 | JJ Bleday |
4 | Shea Langeliers |
5 | Abraham Toro |
6 | Seth Brown |
7 | Kyle McCann |
8 | Darell Hernaiz |
9 | Ryan Noda |
Oakland A's outfielder Brent Rooker enjoyed his coming out party in the 2023 season, providing massive value to fantasy managers who scooped him up off the waiver wire. In his age-28 season, Rooker hit .246 and slugged 30 home runs alongside an .817 OPS across 526 trips to the plate. He walked at a solid 9.2% clip, although he also punched out at a bloated 32.7% rate. Nonetheless, it wasn't the first time Rooker had down notable power as he clubbed nine homers in just 58 games for the 2021 Twins before seeing just 16 big-league games in the 2022 season. Home-run power is difficult to sustain at the Coliseum in Oakland as ATC projects a regression to 24 home runs in 2024. However, fantasy managers should be willing to take that figure along with another 21 doubles and four steals at his prevailing 293.28 ADP.