The A’s have been the most active team in baseball when it comes to extending young players over the past year and are still trying to get several of their key young hitters signed to long-term deals. In addition to the recent extension offer to the AL Rookie of the Year. Nick KurtzThe A’s have put some effort into recruiting a catcher. Seer LangeliusJon Heyman of the New York Post reports.
Athletics general manager David Forst and his staff have signed the outfielder to a long-term contract. Lawrence Butler (7 years, $65.5 million), shortstop Jacob Wilson (7 years, $70 million), outfielder Tyler Soderstrom (7 years, $86 million) and designated hitter. brent rucker (5 years, $60 million).
Langeliers, 28, is a fairly natural extension candidate, but may be harder to sign than some of his teammates. Unlike Butler, Wilson, and Soderstrom, he has already reached arbitration and received a notable first-year salary, agreeing to terms of $5.25 million for the upcoming season. With another arbitration raise looming before free agency in the 2028-29 offseason, Langeliers could realistically make between $25 million and $30 million over three arbitration seasons.
Langeliers is also represented by Boras Corporation, and while stories of Boras clients not signing on to extensions are a bit of an exaggeration, there’s no denying that such occurrences are rare. As seen in MLBTR’s Contract Tracker, over the past 10 years, only seven times have Boras clients extended their contract for more than three years. There were no extensions for any of Boras’ representative players in Langeliers’ service class (3-4 years) who bought out the free agent season at the time (Contract Tracker link).
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Acquired from the Braves in a trade sent matt olson Until Atlanta, Langeliers has steadily improved his offensive profile each year in the major leagues. He started fresh, hitting .277/.325/.536 (132 wRC+) with a career-high 31 home runs and a career-low 19.7% strikeout rate. Langeliers doesn’t walk as many, but is tied with Colorado. hunter goodman Second most home runs among big league catchers in 2025 (after AL MVP runner-up) carl rowley). He also hit 29 home runs in 2024, and his total of 60 round trip trips over the past two years puts him alone for second among all catchers in that regard (also behind Raleigh).
Defensively, Langelier is somewhat lacking. He had a quality stolen base percentage in the first few seasons of his career, but that dropped to a career-worst 15.6% in 2025. He has improved on his previously poor performance at blocking the ball in the dirt and framing pitches, but Statcast still grades him as average or slightly below average in both categories. The 2025 version of Langeliers wasn’t a liability with the glove, but he pretty much established himself as a bat-first option at the position.
Sorting the contract tracker for extensions among catchers who have already reached arbitration reveals several recent notable components. Langeliers probably won’t be tempted Alejandro KirkAt this point, he has a five-year, $58 million contract, and the A’s are probably reluctant to lock him up for the $105 million guaranteed the Mariners gave Raleigh ($99.4 million in new money). The man he replaced behind the plate for the A’s was; Sean MurphyLangeliers signed a six-year, $73 million contract that could further impact his market value.
It’s not entirely clear whether Langeliers will accept an extension or not, but it’s somewhat notable that they’re still trying to lock down their most prominent unsigned regulars to long-term deals.
Other than Langeliers and Kurtz, the A’s don’t have any clear candidates for an extension. If you want to be particularly aggressive, you might want to target a top pitching prospect. gauge jump and Jamie Arnold That’s before either of them makes their MLB debut, but the latter has yet to even play a professional game since being drafted 11th overall last summer, so the discussion will probably be for next spring rather than this time. Jump, who turns 23 next month, was the 73rd overall pick in the 2024 class and is currently rated as a consensus top 100 prospect. He performed well between High-A and Double-A last year and is scheduled to make his major league debut in 2026.
