The Cincinnati Reds made a set of roster moves this afternoon about an hour before the game was set to begin in Milwaukee against the Brewers. Right-handed pitcher Tejay Antone was recalled from the alternate roster at Prasco Park. He’s taking the place on the roster for Mike Moustakas, who was placed on the 10-day injured list retroactive to Thursday.
Tejay Antone isn’t expected to be in Milwaukee today according to John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and with an off day on Monday he’ll join the team on Tuesday when they open their series at home against the Kansas City Royals. Antone started on Thursday, making his first start of his career in the Major Leagues, but was optioned following the start as he wouldn’t have been available for a while as he recovered from that outing. He was solid, throwing 4.1 innings with just one earned run. The control wasn’t quite as good as it was in his Major League debut the week prior. On Thursday Antone walked four batters while striking out four of the Cleveland hitters he faced.
The rotation is full, with David Bell announcing that coming after the off-day on Monday the rotation would go Luis Castillo, Wade Miley, Anthony DeSclafani, Sonny Gray, and Trevor Bauer. It wasn’t expected that Tejay Antone would jump back into the rotation, but that announcement pretty much assures it for now. Whether Antone will remain in a “long man” kind of role like he was for his Major League debut, or whether they may look at him for the time being as a 1-2 inning reliever remains to be seen. With Tyler Mahle also out of the rotation for now, the two of them probably aren’t both needed as a “long man” option. Situations may dictate how it plays out for both of the young right-handed pitchers.
Good to have him back. What’s going on with Bauer? That will be 8 days between starts.
My guess: His velo is WAY down the last two starts. I’m guessing that they want to give his arm time to rest after that Saturday get warmed up but don’t pitch, Sunday make a start situation. His velo was down that day by about 2MPH from where he normally pitches. Then this last time out it was down another MPH.
I think Mahle and Antone would should be the 7th and 8th inning pitchers this team is lacking.
Definitely should not be Reed or Lorenzen.
I wonder if some of the Driveline stuff has screwed up Lorenzen. Early on he looked like he was trying to see how high he could get the reading on the radar gun and lost his movement which had hit balls flying out of the park. Now it looks like he is afraid to throw it and is missing or hanging everything. I was all for giving Reed a shot at an important role. Now I would bury him as last guy in the pen and either bring up Finnegan or make Miley a reliever. Miley was successful out of pen forthe Brewers while Antone or Mahle can take his starting spot.
Just going to jump in and point out that this past year is not the first time that Lorenzen has worked with Driveline, and it didn’t mess anything up in the past.
Hoping Kuhnel can take this opportunity to stick.