The Cincinnati Reds have today off, but they are still making moves today. Or at least a move. This afternoon the club announced that they have placed left-handed relief pitcher Sam Moll on the 15-day injured list with left shoulder impingement. The roster move is retroactive to April 11th. That would mean that the earlier Moll could return to the bullpen would be on April 26th’s game against the Colorado Rockies. There has not been a roster move to add someone back to the 26-man roster to replace the reliever.
The 33-year-old has only pitched in three games this season and only one so far in April. Across his three outings he’s thrown just 2.0 innings and allowed three hits, three walks, one home run, four earned runs, and he’s only struck out one of the 12 hitters he has faced. He didn’t exactly pitch well in spring training, either. Out in Arizona he allowed 10 runs on 12 hits, a hit batter, and seven walks in just 7.2 innings. That’s a WHIP of 2.48 for those keeping tracking at home. In his eight games he had an ERA of 11.74.
While Cincinnati hasn’t announced the corresponding roster move yet, it seems quite obvious what it will be. Alexis Diaz, who has been the team’s closer for the last few seasons, has been rehabbing in Triple-A Louisville for much of the last two weeks and he returned to Cincinnati on Sunday, but was not activated for the game. He pitched on both the 11th and the 12th for the Bats, so the Reds weren’t going to activate him and ask him to possibly pitch three days in a row. But when they get back on the field on Tuesday to take on the Seattle Mariners it seems that Diaz being activated and replacing Moll in the bullpen would make all of the sense in the world.
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