Hopefully, there won't be a spot for him until the end of the year. Regardless, It's good to see him on another tear.
From the pitch fx data, it looks like Ondrusek's problem wasn't that he was up but he had no movement on his fastball.
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He's already rule-5 eligible?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since he signed after 19, he doesn't have to be protected until after four full seasons - yes? If 2006 was a partial year, if my math is correct, 2010 is his last full season before he'll have to be protected.
I know that, but the rules read that you have five full years in an organization before being required to protect a player if they were drafted at 18 and four years if drafted 19 or older. Since he was 21 when drafted, I believe the Reds have four full seasons before needing to protect him. Unless 2006 counts as a season, which I don't believe it does (though I may be mistaken), then 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 are the seasons they can leave him off the 40-man, then upon submitting protected rosters in November of next year, they'd have to add him to the 40-man roster.
The Saguaros are 0-6 and the Reds look to be a major reason for the losses.
Ondrusek and Watson have been abysmal (Ondrusek had two decent innings today after two shellings earlier). Boxberger wasn't so good in his one outing and Cozart (.590 OPS) and Alonso (.631 OPS) are off to slow starts.
Heisey has been awesome (1.545 OPS) and Leake had an ok outing.
I looked at team ERA and team BA before last night's game and the Saguaros were deep in the basement in both categories. Every team except one had an ERA over 5 and most teams had very good team BAs with 4 of the 6 teams over .290. The Saguaros were batting .228 as a team. The Reds hitters are batting a collective .298. (Heisey is bringing up the avg of a poor Cozart and Alonso)
Jason Grey had some nice things to say about Boxberger's first outings. ESPN Insider content, but as a summary he said that he was 91-93, touching 94 in his first game and 94-96 touching 98 in outing 2. Also that some scouts believe he profiles as a closer.
94-96 touching 98, that's Bailey territory