The Cincinnati Reds sent the loud message to the rest of major league baseball that they're enjoying for keeps this time by completing an 8 participant deal just a week right after attaining Seattles ace in the bullpen, Eddie Guardado. Any time you ship out two commencing placement players, just one who was an All-Star past calendar year and the other that has 16 homeruns and fifty RBIs, there have to be process to the insanity.
The Reds presently sit 4 video games powering the superior flying Cardinals, but have a fantastic shot at snaring the wild card for ending Using the fourth very best record from the NL. Common Supervisor, Wayne Krivsky, realized that his inept bullpen needed an overhaul and he has tackled that need to have.
Cincinnati receives Washingtons Gary Majewski, who may have previously logged fifty five innings in the 1st 50 percent, and Bill Bray, a previous initial round draft decide with the Montreal Expos. Other than the ideal-handed Majewski and lefty Bray, the Reds acquired shortstop Royce Clayton, infielder Brendan Harris and pitching prospect Daryl Thompson. The 36-yr-aged Clayton, who will take in excess of as shortstop for Felipe Lopez, produced his to start with All-Star group final 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 common supervisor Jim Bowden acquired all a few players when he ran the Reds. Kearns, among the list of team’s building blocks through Bowden’s 11-calendar year run in Cincinnati, was soaking inside of a whirlpool Thursday when he got named into the supervisor’s Workplace for a private Assembly.
The 26-calendar year-aged Majewski was 안전메이저놀이터 three-2 that has a 3.fifty eight Period in 46 online games. He led the Nationals with seventy nine appearances final season and had a 2.93 Period. The 23-12 months-aged Bray was the 13th overall choose in the June 2004 draft and was thought of one of the Nationals’ prime pitching prospective customers. He was one-one with a three.ninety one Period in 19 reduction appearances this time, his initial within the majors.
Kearns was hitting .274 with 16 homers and 50 RBIs. He turned a fixture in ideal subject immediately after Krivsky traded outfielder Wily Mo Pena to Boston in March for starter Bronson Arroyo who represented the Reds during the All-Star activity.
Lopez is hitting .268 with 9 homers and thirty RBIs, but has once in a while failed to make the schedule Engage in. The Reds are next-to-previous in the NL in-fielding.
Producing the program performs continuously and having high quality middle relief really should put the Reds in position to problem the Cards who definitely have struggled all yr with accidents.
Bob Acton