The Cincinnati Reds sent the loud concept to the remainder of main league baseball that they are actively playing for keeps this year by completing an 8 player offer just weekly right after obtaining Seattles ace during the bullpen, Eddie Guardado. Any time you ship out two starting up posture players, a single who was an All-Star final yr and one other who's got 16 homeruns and fifty RBIs, there has to be process towards your madness.
The Reds presently sit four games powering the superior traveling Cardinals, but have a superb shot at snaring the wild card for ending Together with the fourth ideal history in the NL. Normal Supervisor, Wayne Krivsky, understood that his inept bullpen needed an overhaul and he has tackled that need to have.
Cincinnati gets Washingtons Gary Majewski, who may have now logged fifty five innings in the primary 50 percent, and Invoice Bray, a former to start with spherical draft select of your Montreal Expos. Apart from the correct-handed Majewski and lefty Bray, the Reds acquired shortstop Royce Clayton, infielder Brendan Harris and pitching prospect Daryl Thompson. The 36-calendar year-aged Clayton, who will take about as shortstop for Felipe Lopez, built 안전메이저놀이터 his very first All-Star staff last year.
Headed to Washington will be the aforementioned Lopez and slugger Austin Kearns. The Reds also gave up reliever Ryan Wagner a first-round draft decide in 2003. Nationals basic manager Jim Bowden acquired all three players when he ran the Reds. Kearns, one of the team’s setting up blocks in the course of Bowden’s 11-yr operate in Cincinnati, was soaking within a whirlpool Thursday when he got termed in to the supervisor’s Workplace for A non-public Conference.
The 26-calendar year-aged Majewski was three-2 by using a three.fifty eight ERA in forty six game titles. He led the Nationals with 79 appearances previous season and experienced a 2.ninety three Period. The 23-calendar year-old Bray was the 13th overall decide on inside the June 2004 draft and was viewed as among the list of Nationals’ major pitching potential clients. He was 1-one that has a 3.91 Period in 19 reduction appearances this time, his 1st while in the majors.
Kearns was hitting .274 with 16 homers and 50 RBIs. He turned a fixture in right industry after Krivsky traded outfielder Wily Mo Pena to Boston in March for starter Bronson Arroyo who represented the Reds while in the All-Star activity.
Lopez is hitting .268 with 9 homers and 30 RBIs, but has at times did not make the regimen Perform. The Reds are next-to-last inside the NL in-fielding.
Building the routine performs continuously and obtaining excellent middle reduction ought to put the Reds in placement to problem the Playing cards which have struggled all year with accidents.
Bob Acton