Sure. The reply to the query within the headline is sure. Johnny Cueto is now a free agent. And the Cincinnati Reds are determined for beginning pitching. They’ve been churning and burning via pitching choices for the final month attempting to only survive till the top of the season. Issues are so unhealthy that they began Julian Aguiar, a 23-year-old starter, on brief relaxation whereas being 16 video games out of first place. He was on a restricted pitch depend however the level nonetheless stands – this crew is in desperation and survival mode at this level of the 12 months with so many beginning pitchers on the injured record. They don’t want good pitching, essentially. They only want sufficient innings to maintain guys wholesome.
Final week the Reds referred to as up a man who was pitching in Korea lower than a month in the past. Final week the Reds referred to as up a man who hadn’t pitched within the huge leagues in a full on decade. Johnny Cueto hasn’t precisely been kicking crew’s butts over the past two years whereas pitching for Miami and Los Angeles (Angels), however he’s wholesome and he can in all probability provide you with badly wanted innings. And actually, with the crew actually out of rivalry, he would possibly usher in a number of followers that in any other case had lengthy moved on to school soccer and or the NFL season.
This season has seen Cueto begin 12 video games in Triple-A between the Rangers and Angels organizations. He threw 61.1 innings and had an ERA of 4.84. Once more, that’s not precisely good, however the Reds have lengthy been out of “good” choices. What they want are innings. And in his final seven begins between Triple-A and the large leagues, Cueto has thrown six or extra innings in 4 of them and he accomplished 5 innings within the different three – whereas pitching into the sixth in his final begin however didn’t file an out in that inning in opposition to the Tigers.
Given the place he’s at in his profession, he’s in all probability not going to value greater than the league minimal, which at this level of the season is about $100,000. Deliver him in, let him begin each fifth day and eat some innings to get you thru the top of the 12 months. There’s nothing to lose right here however a tiny sum of money and somebody who’s on the 40-man roster who will must be cleared off of it that you just in all probability have been going to to not carry again after this season anyhow.
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