The Cincinnati Reds sent the loud message to the rest of main league baseball that they're enjoying for keeps this year by completing an eight participant deal just every week soon after acquiring Seattles ace from the bullpen, Eddie Guardado. Any time you ship out two starting position players, just one who was an All-Star final calendar year and the other who has sixteen homeruns and fifty RBIs, there need to be system for your insanity.
The Reds presently sit 4 video games powering the significant traveling Cardinals, but have a fantastic shot at snaring the wild card for ending Along with the fourth best history within the NL. Common Manager, Wayne Krivsky, understood that his inept bullpen required an overhaul and he has tackled that will need.
Cincinnati receives Washingtons Gary Majewski, that has currently logged fifty five innings in the 1st 50 %, and http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/안전메이저놀이터 Bill Bray, a former initial spherical draft pick 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 The 36-yr-outdated Clayton, who'll consider around as shortstop for Felipe Lopez, designed his initially All-Star group past yr.
Headed to Washington is the aforementioned Lopez and slugger Austin Kearns. The Reds also gave up reliever Ryan Wagner a first-round draft pick in 2003. Nationals normal manager Jim Bowden obtained all 3 players when he ran the Reds. Kearns, on the list of crew’s building blocks all through Bowden’s 11-12 months run in Cincinnati, was soaking in the whirlpool Thursday when he obtained termed into your supervisor’s office for a private Assembly.
The 26-calendar year-previous Majewski was 3-2 using a three.58 Period in 46 video games. He led the Nationals with seventy nine appearances final year and had a two.ninety three ERA. The 23-yr-aged Bray was the thirteenth General choose from the June 2004 draft and was deemed one of several Nationals’ top rated pitching prospects. He was one-1 which has a 3.91 ERA in 19 aid appearances this season, his initial in the majors.
Kearns was hitting .274 with sixteen homers and fifty RBIs. He became a fixture in ideal discipline soon after Krivsky traded outfielder Wily Mo Pena to Boston in March for starter Bronson Arroyo who represented the Reds while in the All-Star video game.
Lopez is hitting .268 with nine 안전메이저놀이터 homers and 30 RBIs, but has from time to time failed to make the routine Enjoy. The Reds are 2nd-to-last inside the NL in-fielding.
Creating the program performs constantly and receiving excellent Center relief must place the Reds in position to problem the Cards who definitely have struggled all year with injuries.
Bob Acton