The Cincinnati Reds sent the loud message to the rest of significant league baseball that they're actively playing for keeps this year by completing an eight player deal just each week immediately after buying Seattles ace while in the bullpen, Eddie Guardado. Any time you ship out two beginning place players, just one who was an All-Star previous 12 months and another who has 16 homeruns and 50 RBIs, there need to be system for your madness.
The Reds presently sit 4 online games driving the high traveling Cardinals, but have a very good shot at snaring the wild card for finishing with the fourth best document while in the NL. Normal Manager, Wayne Krivsky, recognized that his inept bullpen desired an overhaul and he has dealt with that need.
Cincinnati gets Washingtons Gary Majewski, who has currently logged fifty five innings in the initial 50 %, and Bill Bray, a previous 1st spherical draft pick with the Montreal Expos. Apart from the ideal-handed Majewski and lefty Bray, the Reds obtained shortstop Royce Clayton, infielder Brendan Harris and pitching prospect Daryl Thompson. The 36-yr-aged Clayton, who'll just take about as shortstop for Felipe Lopez, built his first All-Star workforce final year.
Headed to Washington may be the aforementioned Lopez and slugger Austin Kearns. The Reds also gave up reliever Ryan Wagner a primary-round draft decide in 2003. Nationals standard supervisor Jim Bowden acquired all 3 players when he ran the Reds. Kearns, among the list of crew’s building blocks in the course of Bowden’s eleven-12 months run in Cincinnati, was soaking in a whirlpool Thursday when he received termed in to the manager’s Business office for a private Conference.
The 26-yr-old Majewski was three-2 having a 3.58 ERA in forty six online games. He led the Nationals with 79 appearances last time and had a two.93 Period. The 23-year-previous Bray was the 13th overall select while in the June 2004 draft and was considered on the list of Nationals’ leading pitching prospective buyers. He was one-one with a three.ninety one Period in 19 reduction appearances this season, his very first in the majors.
Kearns was hitting .274 with sixteen homers and 50 RBIs. He turned a fixture in appropriate area after Krivsky traded outfielder Wily Mo Pena to Boston in March for starter Bronson Arroyo who represented the Reds while in the All-Star match.
Lopez is hitting .268 with 9 homers and thirty RBIs, but has at times failed to make the plan Engage in. The Reds are second-to-last in the NL in-fielding.
Building the plan plays constantly and acquiring high-quality middle relief ought to set the Reds in posture 안전메이저놀이터 to problem the Cards that have struggled all year with accidents.
Bob Acton