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For the Reds roster, that means that Myers \u2013 a former pitcher who converted to hitting full-time after the 2019 season \u2013 adds a right-handed bat who\u2019s shown some pretty decent work against LHP in his limited time in the bigs. He\u2019ll turn 30 years old in March of 2026 yet has just 511 PA in the bigs under his belt, though he has managed to hit .297\/.360\/.456 in 203 PA against southpaws in that time. That paired with his plus defensive ability means he\u2019ll be a platoon option for a club that now sports left-handed options in Bleday, Will Benson, Gavin Lux, and TJ Friedl opposite presumptive RF regular Noelvi Marte.<\/p>\n
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(In case that paragraph doesn\u2019t emphasize it enough, he\u2019s posted just a .549 OPS against RHP and will turn 30 next year. That\u2019s a non-starter.)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s less about what this move adds, however. Myers is a pre-arb guy with team control and a league-minimum salary who, given the rest of the group, should serve some purpose. He also adds a potential seventh outfielder to the mix, and that mix now features a full handful of guys who we\u2019re still not sure really deserve to get regular time out there at all, let alone regularly.<\/p>\n
In adding Bleday and Myers the same day \u2013 literally a full-time position by platoon \u2013 the Reds have gone cheap to \u2018complete\u2019 one position on the potential roster, something of a sign that there may not be another major offensive addition actually in the pipeline. For the team that was once connected with the likes of Kyle Schwarber, Ketel Marte, Brandon Lowe, and Luis Robert Jr., among other more \u2018notable\u2019 bats, this sure reeks of the club simply copping out on the cheap.<\/p>\n
Of course, that\u2019s if they\u2019re totally done, which their even further disjointed roster suggests may not be the case. The bullpen, now devoid of both Keegan Thompson and Richardson today after the Reds entered the weekend already short on options down there, seems to be a spot the team still desperately needs to address, and you\u2019ve got to wonder if now they\u2019ll end up using their surplus of positionless noodlebats they\u2019ve acquired this offseason to try to help that spot via trade somewhere else.<\/p>\n
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Maybe that means they\u2019ve got a way to unload Gavin Lux and the roughly $5 million he\u2019ll be owed to get an arm for down there. Maybe it means they see Father Time sapping TJ Friedl\u2019s speed and think now\u2019s the time to move him for a legitimate piece with plenty of team control.<\/p>\n
Maybe, though, it means the Reds saw a way to cobble together as many AAA-AAAA pieces as they could that still have minor league options remaining \u2013 as Myers does \u2013 and simply hope they can adeptly rotate through them at precisely the right times each is hot and healthy and at the end of the year they\u2019ll end up with a full season\u2019s worth of decent production. In essence, they\u2019ve built a roster that will require constant substitution and tinkering, putting the onus on both Nick Krall and Tito Francona to manage it absolutely to perfection to extract its maximum value in lieu of, say, simply bringing in a player or two good enough to just dicatate that success themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds spent their Saturday morning finalizing a deal to sign outfielder JJ Bleday, the former 4th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,1751,535,50,4259,1951,730,1952,27451,729,81,999,1551,58,4,542,2062,536,8167,7656],"class_list":{"0":"post-502857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brandon-lowe","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-cincinnatireds","13":"tag-dane-myers","14":"tag-gavin-lux","15":"tag-jj-bleday","16":"tag-keegan-thompson","17":"tag-ketel-marte","18":"tag-kyle-schwarber","19":"tag-luis-robert-jr","20":"tag-lyon-richardson","21":"tag-miami-marlins","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-noelvi-marte","24":"tag-outfielder","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-tj-friedl","27":"tag-will-benson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115826338284563999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}