Reds claim catcher Deivy Grullón off waivers

[Tom Servo]

C. Trent Rosecrans
@ctrent

Reds claimed C Deivy Grullón off of waivers from the Red Sox. The 40-man roster is at 33.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=grullo000dei

Hitting numbers in the minor look pretty good and he's only 24.

[Old school 1983]

Insert sarcastic comment about depth signing with reference to scrub player from 1978-1988

In all seriousness. Looks like a solid pickup.

[Bruce Berenyi]

thank you old school you know you are clairvoyant the signing reminds me of the great heist of Dann Bilardello, or even plucking the great Dave Van Gorder off the campus of USC another Brinks job

[WrongVerb]

thank you old school you know you are clairvoyant the signing reminds me of the great heist of Dann Bilardello, or even plucking the great Dave Van Gorder off the campus of USC another Brinks job

Speaking of Dave Van Gorder...was 1978 the year that Dick Wagner was in charge of the draft?

Year	Rnd	DT	OvPck	FrRnd	RdPck	Tm	Signed	Bonus	Name	Pos	WAR
1978	2		43	FrRnd	17	Reds	Y		Dave Van Gorder (minors)	C	-1.7
1978	2		44	FrRnd	18	White Sox	N		Benjamin Belue (minors)	OF
1978	2		45	FrRnd	19	Pirates	Y		Bradley Palmer (minors)	LHP
1978	2		46	FrRnd	20	Rangers	Y		Amos Lewis (minors)	RHP
1978	2		47	FrRnd	21	Dodgers	Y		Clay Smith (minors)	SS
1978	2		48	FrRnd	22	Orioles	Y		Cal Ripken Jr. (minors)	3B	95.9

[Old school 1983]

thank you old school you know you are clairvoyant the signing reminds me of the great heist of Dann Bilardello, or even plucking the great Dave Van Gorder off the campus of USC another Brinks job

I about said Dave Van Gorder but I chose to keep my post more general.

[Bruce Berenyi]

wow we certainly scoped out that talent having vangorder compete with steve christmas, mike oberry and alex trevino was a memorable tussle, a gargantuan epic struggle for catching superiority

[DonutBoy]

Alan Knicely and Joe Nolan say hello

[Tony Cloninger]

I long for the mighty Hal King or the unfortunate Don Werner. His bat did the 1978 Reds no favors.

[Big Klu]

Alan Knicely and Joe Nolan say hello

Joe Nolan hit over .300 both seasons he played for the Reds -- as Johnny Bench's backup in 1980, and as the regular catcher in 1981 after Bench injured his ankle.

[Bruce Berenyi]

joe nolan was pretty good, if we are going to talk about marginalea brad gulden, jerry zimmerman, sonny ruberto merit more consideration

[marcshoe]

thank you old school you know you are clairvoyant the signing reminds me of the great heist of Dann Bilardello, or even plucking the great Dave Van Gorder off the campus of USC another Brinks job

Post reported for using both of those names in one sentence. One would have been bad enough.

[Big Klu]

Post reported for using both of those names in one sentence. One would have been bad enough.

Yes, but Bilardello was able to usurp the catching job from Alex Treviño in 1983, so he gets kudos for that.

[Bruce Berenyi]

At least I did not use Hal Bevan or Guillermo Garcia

[klw]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/...s-red-sox.html

Grullon, 24, has made extremely brief appearances in the Majors with both the Phillies (2019) and Red Sox (2020) over the past two seasons. In 13 plate appearances, he’s collected two hits, including a double, with a walk and three punchouts. There’s little to glean from such a small sample, but Grullon carries a .283/.354/.496 slash in 457 Triple-A plate appearances and a .264/.302/.494 line in a similar body of work in Double-A.

Baseball America ranked Grullon among the best prospects in the Phillies’ system each year from 2014-20, right up until the Phils designated him for assignment in September and lost him on waivers to the Red Sox. While he never cracked the organization’s top 10 and was generally considered to be in the back half of the club’s top farmhands. Above-average power to his pull side and a strong throwing arm are regarded as his best tools.

Grullon still has minor league options remaining, so he can give the Reds an additional depth option behind veteran Tucker Barnhart (assuming he isn’t traded as part of the team’s efforts to pare back payroll), young Tyler Stephenson and utilityman Kyle Farmer. Cincinnati non-tendered Curt Casali earlier this month.

[savafan]

Well now letting Casali go makes sense.