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Reds To Sign Kyle Zimmer

By Darragh McDonald | March 19, 2022 at 4:54pm CDT

Right-hander Kyle Zimmer is in the Reds’ locker room, according to Charlie Goldsmith of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Presumably, he and the team have a minor league pact, based on the fact that Zimmer cleared waivers just before the lockout.

The righty was taken by the Royals with the fifth overall selection in the 2012 draft and was considered one of the better prospects in baseball in the years after that. Baseball America placed Zimmer on their Top 100 list four consecutive years from 2013 to 2016. Unfortunately, arm injuries have prevented Zimmer from reaching those lofty expectations thus far in his career.

In the shortened 2020 season, it seemed like maybe he was getting things back on track, throwing 23 innings with a 1.57 ERA. His 11% walk rate was high, but he did rack up strikeouts at an excellent 28.6% rate. He also seemed to be carrying that forward into 2021, with his ERA sitting under 3.00 into July. Unfortunately, he couldn’t finish strong and ended the year with a 4.83 ERA over 54 innings, with a meager 20.6% strikeout rate and 13.5% walk rate. He was released by the Royals in November.

For the Reds, they’ve been mostly focused on cost-cutting measures this offseason, with Wade Miley, Sonny Gray and Amir Garrett being notable subtractions from the pitching staff in the past few months. The 30-year-old Zimmer is a low-cost way of getting a former top prospect into the system. He has over two years of MLB service time and an option year remaining. If he’s able to show any of the previous form that made him successful in 2020, he could give Cincy a depth arm that could be shuffled between Triple-A and the majors, as well as being kept around via arbitration beyond this year.

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14 Comments

  1. embalmer

    4 years ago

    Dumpster diving again. I’m so tired of it. You’d think that 60 years of the sos a person would wise up and find a better team to cheer for.

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    • mbauza25

      4 years ago

      Built back better

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  2. embalmer

    4 years ago

    Dumpster diving again

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    • uvmfiji

      4 years ago

      Dempster diving would be better at this point.

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  3. thebaseballfanatic

    4 years ago

    “Player X is in the locker room”
    Is there a reason as to why the Reds don’t report any of these MILB signings?

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    • joeshmoe11

      4 years ago

      Probably because reporters see the locker room before the press release has been dropped. Nothing insidious

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  4. Tiger22matt

    4 years ago

    In other words he got lit up in the last part of the season. Still dumpster diving but a better signing than the garbage that was signed earlier.

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    Reply
  5. WHeitzman

    4 years ago

    The Reds haven’t had much success with Royals pitching prospects

    Reply
  6. pappyvw

    4 years ago

    Great pic.

    Reply
  7. Bjoe

    4 years ago

    Low risk signing. Nothing wrong with it!

    Reply
  8. uvmfiji

    4 years ago

    Bubba Starling and Zimmer back to back. Yikes.

    Reply
  9. uvmfiji

    4 years ago

    The rebuild started when they let Thom Brennaman go.

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    • earmbrister

      4 years ago

      Thom was addition by subtraction.

      Reply
  10. angt222

    4 years ago

    Rooting for Zimmer. Trying to hang onto his MLB career.

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