The Cincinnati Reds sent the loud concept to the remainder of main league baseball that they're playing for retains this period by finishing an 8 player deal just every week following acquiring Seattles ace during the bullpen, Eddie Guardado. Any time you ship out two starting off posture players, a single who was an All-Star previous year and the opposite that has 16 homeruns and fifty RBIs, there need to be system in your madness.
The Reds presently sit 4 games driving the significant flying Cardinals, but have a great shot at snaring the wild card for finishing Together with the fourth very best report inside the NL. General Supervisor, Wayne Krivsky, understood that his inept bullpen desired an overhaul and he has resolved that want.
Cincinnati gets Washingtons Gary Majewski, who may have currently logged 55 innings in the primary fifty percent, and Invoice Bray, a previous very first spherical draft choose of your Montreal Expos. In addition to the correct-handed Majewski and lefty Bray, the Reds obtained shortstop Royce Clayton, infielder Brendan Harris and pitching prospect Daryl Thompson. The 36-year-previous Clayton, who'll consider around as shortstop for Felipe Lopez, built his initially All-Star staff past year.
Headed to Washington would be the aforementioned Lopez and slugger Austin Kearns. The Reds also gave up reliever Ryan Wagner a first-spherical draft select in 2003. Nationals common supervisor Jim Bowden acquired all a few players when he ran the Reds. Kearns, one of many staff’s building blocks all through Bowden’s eleven-calendar year run in Cincinnati, was soaking in a whirlpool Thursday when he got referred to as in the supervisor’s office for A non-public Assembly.
The 26-year-outdated Majewski was 3-two that has a three.58 ERA in 46 games. He led the Nationals with seventy nine appearances past period and had a 2.ninety three ERA. The 23-year-aged Bray was the thirteenth overall decide on within the June 2004 draft and was viewed as one of many Nationals’ top rated pitching prospective buyers. He was one-1 with a three.ninety one ERA in 19 reduction appearances this period, his initially 안전메이저놀이터 while in the majors.
Kearns was hitting .274 with 16 homers and 50 RBIs. He turned a fixture in right subject soon after Krivsky traded outfielder Wily Mo Pena to Boston in March for starter Bronson Arroyo who represented the Reds during the All-Star video game.
Lopez is hitting .268 with 9 homers and thirty RBIs, but has once in a while failed to make the program Enjoy. The Reds are 2nd-to-last inside the NL in-fielding.
Creating the routine plays on a regular basis and acquiring high-quality Center aid should really place the Reds in placement to problem the Playing cards who definitely have struggled all calendar year with injuries.
Bob Acton