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Hill won’t start on Sunday, may head to DL
- Updated: July 29, 2016
CLEVELAND — A’s left-hander Rich Hill is making progress with the blister on his left middle finger, just not enough to pitch Sunday in Cleveland.
Instead, Sonny Gray will take his regular turn to close out a three-game road series with the Indians, while Oakland mulls whether to place Hill on the disabled list. With a 10-day backdate, he could return as soon as Thursday — so long as he’s not dealt ahead of Monday’s 1 p.m. PT non-waiver Trade Deadline, of course.
Players on the DL can still be traded, and A’s general manager David Forst said Friday that Hill’s status “certainly hasn’t diminished the number of phone calls we’ve fielded.”
“The Deadline is Monday, no matter what happens with Rich,” Forst said. “There has been interest, we’ve had conversations. We’re not going to give Rich away just because he’s a free agent next year. He has a lot of value to us and, frankly, who’s to say we’re not interested in keeping Rich beyond this year?”
Forst said the team knew earlier this week that a Sunday start would be a long …
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