Before Barrera enjoyed the best two-week stretch of his life on a baseball field, the prospect who signed with Oakland as a teenager out of the Dominican Republic in 2012 was essentially forgotten.
The left-handed hitting outfielder spent six seasons in the A’s farm system without reaching Triple-A, and didn’t play at all in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the minor league season.
Twenty-nine other teams had a chance to claim Barrera on waivers, but all passed. And when the A’s decided they’d seen enough from struggling veteran and former first-round pick Billy McKinney, Barrera got one more chance.
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