Brian Howard (baseball)

Below are selected minor league players and the rosters of the minor league affiliates of the Oakland Athletics:

John Gowen Cushing (born December 3, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Oakland Athletics organization.

Cushing attended Edward S. Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas, where he played baseball.

Brady Marshall Basso (born October 8, 1997) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Basso played college baseball at Oklahoma State University.

Tyler Cole Baum (born January 14, 1998) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Oakland Athletics organization.

Baum attended West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida.

Euribiel Angeles (born May 11, 2002) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder in the Oakland Athletics organization.

After graduating in 2015, he played four years of college baseball at Georgetown University.

Going into the 2016 playoffs, he held a 7–0 record and a 2.07 ERA with 70 strikeouts.

The team advanced to the final four, but fell in the state qualifying game to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Baum went unselected in the 2016 Major League Baseball draft, and he enrolled at the University of North Carolina where he played college baseball.

In 2017, Baum's freshman season, he started 15 games and pitched 63 innings in which he went 7–0 with a 2.57 ERA.

That summer, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League, where he was named a league all-star and posted a 5–1 record on the mound.

Angeles signed with the San Diego Padres as an international free agent in 2018.

As a sophomore in 2018, he made 18 appearances (12 starts), going 4–1 with a 4.57 ERA.

He returned to play for Harwich after the season.

He made his professional debut in 2019 with the Dominican Summer League Padres.

In 2021 he played for the Lake Elsinore Storm and Fort Wayne TinCaps.

On April 3, 2022, Angeles, along with Adrián Martínez, was traded to the Oakland Athletics for Sean Manaea.

He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 16th round of the 2019 MLB draft.

On November 15, 2023, the Athletics added Basso to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft.

In 2019, he appeared in 17 games (making 16 starts), pitching to a 7–3 record and a 3.87 ERA.

After the season, he was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the second round (66th overall) of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft.

Baum signed with Oakland for $900,000 and made his professional debut with the Vermont Lake Monsters of the Class A Short Season New York–Penn League.

Over 11 starts, he went 0–3 with a 4.70 ERA, striking out 34 batters over innings.

He was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 22nd round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft.

Cushing signed with Oakland and split his first professional season between the Arizona League Athletics and Vermont Lake Monsters, going 3–6 with a 6.00 ERA over 42 innings.

He did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but was added to Oakland's 60-man player pool and spent the summer training at their alternate site.

Baum missed the beginning of the 2021 season and did not make his season debut until mid-August with the Rookie-level Arizona Complex League Athletics with whom he gave up 17 earned runs and twenty walks over innings.

He was assigned to the Stockton Ports of the Single-A California League to open the 2022 season, but was reassigned to the Arizona Complex League.

He continued to struggle with control, going 1–1 with a 17.00 ERA, 47 walks, and 32 strikeouts over 27 innings between both teams.

Baum split the 2023 season between the Lansing Lugnuts of the High-A Midwest League and the Midland RockHounds of the Double-A Texas League, appearing in 39 games and going 2-2 with a 3.54 ERA, 62 strikeouts, and 25 walks over innings.

He did not play a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season.

He opened the 2021 season with the Stockton Ports and was promoted to the Lansing Lugnuts and Midland RockHounds during the season.

Over 21 games (19 starts) between the three teams, Cushing went 7–7 with a 3.22 ERA and 111 strikeouts over innings.

He began the 2022 season with Midland and was promoted to the Las Vegas Aviators in mid-June.

After struggling to a 14.14 ERA over 21 innings with the Aviators, he was demoted back to Midland in mid-July.

Over 19 starts with Midland, he went 11–3 with a 3.67 ERA and 95 strikeouts over innings.

Cushing spent the majority of the 2023 season with Midland, but also appeared in three games for Las Vegas.