[Twitter]: The #Reds today returned from a rehab assignment, reinstated from the 10-day injured list and designated for assignment OF Wil Myers.
The #Reds today returned from a rehab assignment, reinstated from the 10-day injured list and designated for assignment OF Wil Myers. pic.twitter.com/AMdSsloXaY
— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) June 20, 2023
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Praise the lord
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Ladies and gentleman, we got him.
Holy shit they actually did it! CES incoming soon!
This made my day. Goodbye frustrations.
Glad the guy got his 10 years of service time, but at the same time glad Krall & Co. recognized it wasn’t working out instead of trying to force him back into the mix because of sunk costs.
Wish him the best, but glad he’s not gonna take playing time from the young guns.
#BYE BYE WIL YOU WIL BE MISSED
I had a feeling they’d eat the contract, especially after how Shogo and Moose were handled
✌🏻
Thank you for your service, Wish.com Matt Kemp…
HOLY SHIT IT’S HAPPPPPPPPENING
this team is legit
So the Reds traded a couple of 22-year-olds in high-A, and paid some millions of bucks, for a guy they might be able to trade for someone like Will Benson right about now, and Will Benson himself.
I’ll take it. Mr. Myers, we salute your service and wish you well in your future endeavors.
This is a sign the ship is heading in the right direction.
IT HAPPENED, WE’RE FREE
Wil Myers comes out of the upside-down and straight into the Russian gulag.
Man, the Reds are doing absolutely everything right this year.
Always liked the guy but he just didn’t work out and now there’s no point in making room for him
Holy shit. I actually thought they’d platoon him and hope to salvage some trade value over the next month. They ain’t fucking around.
Hope he can land on his feet somewhere
Wow, I can’t believe they did it. I think he could turn it around, and they probably considered that and still being able to flip him. Shows that they are very committed to the true grassroots rebuild.
He had that 3 dong game, and came up with the Americas team thing, so we’ll always have that
Holy moly
oh no…..
anyways
They actually did it!
I was excited about Wil when he signed. I liked him on the Padres. Unfortunate that it didn’t work out for him here, but this seems like the right decision for the team.
From mlbtraderumors.com:
“The Reds will now have a week to trade Myers, pass him through outright waivers, or release him. Myers is still owed $3.34MM of this year’s $6MM salary, plus the full $1.5MM buyout on next year’s mutual option. Given that $4.84MM left on his contract, there’s no chance another team would claim him at this point. In the likely event that the Reds can’t find a trade partner — which would surely require them either paying down the bulk, if not the entirety of the contract, or taking another bad contract back in return — Myers will pass through waivers unclaimed.
Myers has enough service time to reject an outright assignment without forfeiting the remainder of his salary, so the likeliest outcome is that he’ll become a free agent. Any new team that signs him would only be responsible for paying Myers the prorated league minimum for any time spent on the MLB roster. That sum would be subtracted from what Cincinnati owes him, but either way the Reds will be on the hook for the vast majority of his contract.”
This is the right move.
Just let him go ahead and walk across the field and throw on a purple jersey tonight to save him the trouble.
Feel bad for saying nice move, but yeah nice move. Sorry, Wil.
Bye.
Reds least valuable seasons in the last 10 years for players with at least 100 PA
WAR / OPS+ Player (Season)
1. -1.6 / 10 Jose Barrero (2022)
2. -1.3 / 65 Nick Senzel (2022)
3. -1.2 / 68 Skip Schumaker (2014)
4. -1.2 / 60 José Peraza (2019)
5. -1 / 41 Shogo Akiyama (2021)
6. -1 / 74 Mike Moustakas (2022)
7. -1 / 76 Skip Schumaker (2015)
8. -1 / 68 Tyler Holt (2016)
9. -0.9 / 68 Mike Moustakas (2021)
10. -0.9 / 71 Ryan Ludwick (2013)
11. -0.8 / 82 Jay Bruce (2014)
12. -0.8 / 39 Aramis Garcia (2022)
13. **-0.8 / 44 Wil Myers (2023)**
Fantastic news
He was worse than I expected and that’s with me having almost zero level of expectation he would even be a below average player.
Sayonara amigo.
They said
“We ended his rehab assignment
We reinstated him from the IL
Then we cut his ass”
I didn’t think they had the balls
Wil, we’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is we’re reinstating you from the IL…
I’ve been waiting for this day for so long. No more anxiety over him showing up in the lineup.
Who would you want at the deadline? Imo we need OF and pitching.
HALLELUJAH
$7.5M
Finally, we can all sleep soundly knowing Wil Myers won’t haunt our dreams anymore.
Between lighting tens of millions on fire between Myers, Minor, Moose, et al I hope the Reds have learned a lesson.
Willy Beamin!