The Cincinnati Reds despatched the loud information to the rest of major league baseball that they're enjoying for retains this year by finishing an eight participant offer just weekly just after getting Seattles ace inside the bullpen, Eddie Guardado. Any time you ship out two starting place gamers, 1 who was an All-Star previous calendar year and the opposite that has 16 homeruns and 50 RBIs, there must be approach to the madness.
The Reds presently sit 4 game titles at the rear of the high traveling Cardinals, but have a superb shot at snaring the wild card for ending With all the fourth ideal record during the NL. Normal Manager, Wayne Krivsky, understood that his inept bullpen essential an overhaul and he has dealt with that have to have.
Cincinnati will get Washingtons Gary Majewski, who may have already logged fifty five innings in the first fifty percent, and Monthly bill Bray, a former initially round draft decide of your Montreal Expos. Moreover the correct-handed Majewski and lefty Bray, the Reds acquired shortstop Royce Clayton, infielder Brendan Harris and pitching prospect Daryl Thompson. The 36-year-previous Clayton, who'll acquire over as shortstop for Felipe Lopez, designed his first All-Star workforce very last 12 months.
Headed to Washington could be the aforementioned Lopez and slugger Austin Kearns. The Reds also gave up reliever Ryan Wagner a primary-round draft decide on in 2003. Nationals normal supervisor Jim Bowden obtained all three players when he ran the Reds. Kearns, one of several staff’s constructing blocks in the course of Bowden’s 11-yr operate in Cincinnati, was soaking in a whirlpool Thursday when he got named into the supervisor’s Office environment for A non-public Assembly.
The 26-12 months-outdated Majewski was three-two that has a 3.fifty eight ERA in 46 games. He led the Nationals with 79 appearances very last year and had a 2.93 Period. The 23-12 months-aged Bray was the thirteenth Over-all select in the June 2004 draft and was regarded among the Nationals’ top pitching prospective clients. He was one-1 by using a 3.91 ERA in 19 aid appearances this season, his first during the majors.
Kearns was hitting .274 with sixteen homers and fifty RBIs. He turned a fixture in ideal subject following Krivsky traded outfielder Wily Mo Pena to Boston in March for starter 안전메이저놀이터 Bronson Arroyo who represented the Reds within the All-Star game.
Lopez is hitting .268 with 9 homers and 30 RBIs, but has once in a while failed to make the schedule Perform. The Reds are next-to-past while in the NL in-fielding.
Building the schedule performs all the time and finding excellent middle reduction really should set the Reds in posture to challenge the Cards who may have struggled all calendar year with accidents.
Bob Acton