The Cincinnati Reds despatched the loud concept to the rest of big league baseball that they're taking part in for retains this season by completing an 8 participant offer just weekly just after obtaining Seattles ace in the bullpen, Eddie Guardado. Any time you ship out two starting off placement gamers, one who was an All-Star very last year and another who may have sixteen homeruns and fifty RBIs, there have to be system to your madness.
The Reds presently sit four game titles guiding the higher traveling Cardinals, but have a fantastic shot at snaring the wild card for ending Together with the fourth very best report inside the NL. Common Supervisor, Wayne Krivsky, understood that his inept bullpen needed an overhaul and he has addressed that want.
Cincinnati receives Washingtons Gary Majewski, who may have presently logged 55 innings in the first fifty percent, and Bill Bray, a former 1st round draft choose with the Montreal Expos. Besides the appropriate-handed Majewski and lefty Bray, the Reds obtained shortstop Royce Clayton, infielder Brendan Harris and pitching prospect Daryl Thompson. The 36-calendar year-aged Clayton, who'll choose more than as shortstop for Felipe Lopez, manufactured his initial All-Star staff previous year.
Headed to Washington will be the aforementioned Lopez and slugger Austin Kearns. The Reds also gave up reliever Ryan Wagner a first-spherical draft select in 2003. Nationals basic supervisor Jim Bowden obtained all a few players when he ran the Reds. Kearns, one of several workforce’s constructing blocks through Bowden’s eleven-yr run in Cincinnati, was soaking inside of a whirlpool Thursday when he got referred to as in to the supervisor’s Workplace for A personal Assembly.
The 26-yr-outdated Majewski was 3-2 that has a three.fifty eight ERA in 46 games. He led the Nationals with seventy nine appearances last period and experienced a 2.ninety three ERA. The 23-calendar 안전메이저놀이터 year-outdated Bray was the 13th overall choose in the June 2004 draft and was thought of one of many Nationals’ top rated pitching prospective clients. He was 1-1 having a 3.91 ERA in 19 relief appearances this season, his initially while in the majors.
Kearns was hitting .274 with sixteen homers and 50 RBIs. He grew to become a fixture in ideal subject soon after Krivsky traded outfielder Wily Mo Pena to Boston in March for starter Bronson Arroyo who represented the Reds from the All-Star game.
Lopez is hitting .268 with nine homers and 30 RBIs, but has occasionally didn't make the regime Participate in. The Reds are next-to-previous during the NL in-fielding.
Producing the plan performs all the time and finding high-quality middle reduction should really set the Reds in situation to obstacle the Playing cards who have struggled all 12 months with accidents.
Bob Acton