The Athletics added another option for their refurbished rotation on Saturday, acquiring Jeffrey Springs in a multiplayer trade with the Tampa Bay Rays.

The A’s got Springs and fellow left-hander Jacob Lopez for right-handers Joe Boyle and Jacob Watters, infielder Will Simpson and a competitive balance pick in the 2025 amateur draft.

The 32-year-old Springs had Tommy John surgery on April 24, 2023. He returned to Tampa Bay in July and went 2-2 with a 3.27 ERA in seven starts before he was shut down in September because of elbow fatigue.

Springs had his best season with the Rays in 2022, going 9-5 with a 2.46 ERA in 33 games, including 25 starts. He also had 144 strikeouts in 135 1/3 innings.

The addition of Springs is another notable move for the A’s ahead of their first season in West Sacramento.

The A’s finalized a $67 million, three-year contract with veteran right-hander Luis Severino this month.

The A’s went 69-93 this year, and then left Oakland after 57 seasons.

Lopez, 26, made his big league debut in August 2023. He is 1-0 with a 4.76 ERA and one save in eight career games.

The 6-foot-7 Boyle was a fifth-round pick by Cincinnati in the 2020 draft out of Notre Dame. He was traded to the A’s in July 2023.

Boyle, 25, is 5-6 with a 5.23 ERA in 16 major league games, including 13 starts. He has struck out 71 and walked 45 in 63 2/3 innings.

Simpson, 23, batted .282 with 18 homers and 90 RBIs in 127 games over two minor league stops this year.

Watters, 23, is 9-12 with a 5.86 ERA in 43 career minor league appearances.

SUIToR FOR TWINS

Two months after the Minnesota Twins were put up for sale, the first potential buyer has been identified. And he’s an increasingly familiar face in pro sports.

Phoenix Suns part-owner Justin Ishbia, the billionaire founder and managing partner of Shore Capital Partners, a private equity firm in Chicago, is considering adding Minnesota’s oldest major league sports team to his portfolio, according to a Bloomberg News report.

Ishbia, 47, is studying the Twins and the Twin Cities community, the report said, in hopes of expanding his sports holdings, which already include — along with his brother, Mat — the Suns, the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and, as a minority partner, MLS’s Nashville Soccer Club.

The Ishbia brothers, worth an estimated $15 billion combined, according to Forbes, paid former Suns owner Robert Sarver a record $4 billion to buy the Suns and Mercury in 2023. That’s 10 times as much as the estimated $400 million Sarver paid for the basketball teams in 2004.

And the family of Carl Pohlad, a banker who purchased the Twins in 1984 for roughly $44 million, is expecting an even larger return: The Twins are valued, according to Forbes magazine, at about $1.5 billion, or 34 times what Pohlad paid four decades ago.

METS TO LAUD WRIGHT

Former New York Mets captain David Wright will be honored this summer in a dual ceremony, taking his rightful place in franchise history.

The third baseman who played all 14 years of his major league career in Queens will be inducted into the team hall of fame and have his uniform No.5 retired July 19, ahead of a game against the Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field.

Wright’s No. 5 will be the 10th number taken out of circulation by the team. However, no other Mets player has worn No. 5 since Wright left the game following the 2018 season.

Back and neck injuries ended his career prematurely and limited him to 77 games from 2015-2016.

Wright won two Gold Glove awards, two Silver Sluggers and was named to the All-Star team seven times. He had career totals of 242 homers, 390 doubles, 26 triples, 970 RBIs, 196 stolen bases and 761 walks. He finished his career with a slash line of .296/.376/.491.