The Cincinnati Reds season continues to work against them. Prior to the game on Sunday in St. Louis the Reds announced that starting pitcher Sonny Gray was going to be placed on the 10-day injured list with a right mid-back strain. There are only two weeks left remaining in the season, meaning the Reds will likely be without one of their aces moving forward, with a chance he could make one start in the final series of the year. Taking his place on the roster is right-handed pitcher Sal Romano.
For Sal Romano, he was not on the 40-man roster. He was already in St. Louis as a part of the taxi squad, and the team activated him and added him to both the 40-man and the active 28-man rosters. The big right-handed pitcher has spent parts of the previous three seasons with the big league club in Cincinnati. He’s made 41 starts – all in 2017 and 2018, and he’s pitched out of the bullpen in another 26 games – including all 12 of his appearances in 2019. He had been pitching at the alternate site at Prasco Park this year.
The Reds rotation moving forward, including tomorrow’s double header against Pittsburgh has not yet been announced. David Bell had not yet made a decision on how that would go when he held his pre-game press conference with the media on Sunday, but said it would be coming soon. Given the news of Sonny Gray heading to the injured list, he was likely awaiting more information on how the roster would look before making the announcement.
At 20-26, Cincinnati has a lot of work to get done in the next two weeks if they want to have any shot at the playoffs. They likely can only afford another 2-4 losses if they want any real chance at making the playoffs. Losing Sonny Gray doesn’t help with that at all.
Doug has there been any scuttlebutt about the Reds trying to sign Trevor Bauer for next year? I am trying to find a reason to feel optimistic about this team moving forward. Thank you for your excellent coverage of this team.
No.
Bauer’s been pretty outspoken about how he plans to handle free agency. He wants to play for a winner. There are some other things he would like, too – I think the general expectation is for him to wait to be able to talk to as many teams as possible and see what they’ll let him do.
+500 in a sad and realistic way
See my post here (and previously) noting the same stuff. He’s gone … we’ll miss him.
Well this sucks … kind of like an exclamation point on our season so far.
Now is the time to let Trevor go every 4th day as I see it. He’s still our best SP by a long shot and if he’s up to the task, hand him the ball and let it rip. Really nothing to be lost for the Reds. They didn’t trade him (I supported that move) and they will give him the QO unless he blows up his arm/shoulder. He’s not returning to us next season barring at least 3-5 documented miracles … 🙂
OK – one more under the Arch against these Dirty WLB’s!
Unless Reds win 8 of the 10 games Gray is out, let Gray go into the off-season and get healthy. No need to take any risks to have him do something to jeopardize 2021.
Reds will desperately need a healthy and strong Gray in 2021.
If I were Bauer and the Reds asked to go every 4 days for the last 13 games, tell them no. No need to have extra risk for injury.
Something hasn’t been right with Sonny Gray for a couple of weeks. Now we know.
I would think DeSclafani is back in the rotation and pitching one of the DH games tomorrow.
Good to see Big Sal get the call up. I still hope he can become a good bullpen arm.
This might be related or not but I was not happy at all seeing Sonny pitch in the rain, slipping frequently, hoping he’d not get injured or possibly in this case re-injured.
I agree. Not happy with MLB umpires about this
That was my fault. I started watching again and I should have left it off.
Sorry …
you don’t think they have any chance of going 9 and 4 the last 13 games? because it’s looking like a .500 (30-30) record will have a really good shot at being in