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Cody Reed making his MLB debut tomorrow.
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Cody Reed to make Reds' debut Saturday in Houston
ATLANTA — The prospects are coming! The prospects are coming!
Well, at least one of them. Left-hander Cody Reed will make his big-league debut on Saturday for the Reds against the Astros at Minute Maid Park.
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Reds pitcher Cody Reed delivers a pitch during spring training.
“(I am) very excited. It’s just another piece, another piece of the putting this together where we have some consistency and some young pieces that get a chance to grow,” Reds manager Bryan Price said following Thursday’s 7-2 loss to the Braves. “We’re seeing it with a handful of guys who are currently with us now, now that (Jose) Peraza is with us and (Brandon) Finnegan and (Eugenio) Suarez and some of these guys that we anticipate are going to be here, or are at least optimistic that are going to be here long-term and he’s another piece. We’re going to have to be patient with some of the other kids that are in Double-A and Triple-A.”
Reed, ranked the Reds’ No. 2 prospect by Baseball America, is 6-3 with a 3.20 ERA in 11 starts at Triple-A Louisville this season.
Price said Reed is not coming up just for his debut. He’s here to pitch in the rotation.
“He’s a piece of our future that we feel very confident that it’s going to be able to impact our club in a positive way,” Price said.
Reed, 23, was one of three players the Reds received from the Royals in exchange for Johnny Cueto at the trade deadline last year, along with Finnegan and fellow lefty John Lamb.
At the time, much of the focus was on Finnegan, who a year earlier had pitched for the Royals in the World Series in the same year he was drafted. At first, there were whispers that Reed may be the best of the players the Reds received. Those became murmurings after he joined Double-A Pensacola after the trade and went 6-2 with a 2.17 ERA in eight starts. By the time spring training finished in March, it was clear that Reed was a big part of the team’s rebuilding plan.
Baseball America ranked him the No. 34 prospect in baseball, Baseball Prospectus had him at No. 47 and MLB.com put him at No. 60.
Regardless of rankings, he’s backed it up on the field. He impressed during spring training, going 1-2 with a 2.17 ERA in four starts and five total appearances. He had 16 strikeouts and six walks in 15 2/3 innings in Arizona.
At 6-foot-5, 225 pounds, Reed is an imposing physical presence, not to mention his mid-90s fastball and wipeout slider.
He will inherit the spot in the rotation that was last filled by right-hander Daniel Wright, who lasted just three innings in Monday’s victory against the Braves. Reed pitched Monday for Louisville, allowing one earned run on three hits with five strikeouts and two walks in six innings. With the Bats, he has 63 strikeouts and 17 walks in 64 2/3 innings.
The Reds have kept him in Louisville until now, trying to keep him from reaching Super Two status, which gives some players an extra year of arbitration. Arbitration is usually granted after a player’s third year of service time, but the top 22 percent of players with more than two years of service time and less than three get the extra year of arbitration.
Teams have been careful about calling up prospects too soon in recent years to avoid Super Two status. The safe zone over the last couple of years has been the middle of June, and that time is now for Reed.
The Reds will still have to make room on their 40-man roster, but that won’t be a hurdle, as Reed is finally coming to the big leagues. It shouldn’t take much longer for right-hander Robert Stephenson, the team’s top prospect according to Baseball America and No. 2 to outfielder Jesse Winker by MLB.com, to join him. Stephenson has already accumulated some service time, but not much, with two wins in two starts for the Reds already this season.
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