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Reds Select Ross Detwiler, Designate Robert Dugger

By Darragh McDonald | May 14, 2022 at 3:00pm CDT

The Reds announced that they have selected the contract of left-hander Ross Detwiler. To make room for him on the 40-man roster, righty Robert Dugger has been designated for assignment.

Detwiler, 36, has appeared in 13 MLB seasons dating back to 2007. Last year, he pitched for both the Marlins and the Padres, logging 52 1/3 frames with a 4.64 ERA. Working with a changed pitch mix, Detwiller completely altered his profile last year. Swapping out sinkers for four-seam fastballs, he sacrificed grounders but gained strikeouts. After getting worm burners above 50% for three years in a row from 2018-2020, it dropped to 39.9 in 2021. His strikeout rate, which had been around 15% for most of his career, jumped to 27.1% last year.

Signed by the Reds to a minor league deal in April, the southpaw has thrown seven innings for the Triple-A Louisville Bats. That’s obviously a tiny sample size, but he has a 3.86 ERA with a 40% ground ball rate, 21.9% strikeout rate and 15.6% walk rate. With Justin Wilson on the IL and Phillip Diehl designated for assignment last week, the club has been without a lefty in the bullpen until they added Detwiler today.

As for Dugger, this is his third time being designated for assignment in the past couple of weeks. He was selected by the Rays at the beginning of May and given 5 1/3 innings of mop-up duty just before the roster size was set to shrink from 28 to 26. After that outing, he was put on waivers and claimed by the Reds. Cincy gave him three more innings of mop-up work, designated him again, outrighted him to Triple-A and then selected his contract two days later. This time, he’s sent back out into DFA limbo without the mop-up duty, as he still just has the two appearances on the year.

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Comments

  1. Monkey’s Uncle

    11 months ago

    Ross Detwiler knew Abner Doubleday personally.

    Reply
    • marcfrombrooklyn

      11 months ago

      Nah! Tony LaRussa knew Doubleday. Detwiler isn’t that old. He knew Albert Spalding.

      Reply
  2. DodgersWorldChamps2020+2022

    11 months ago

    This will turn around the Reds’ season!

    Reply
  3. Dorothy_Mantooth

    11 months ago

    Strange decision to DFA a 26 year old in order to call up a 36 year old veteran. They must not think very highly of Dugger’s upside.

    Reply
    • hiflew

      11 months ago

      Why not? They needed a fresh arm and they knew they already passed Duggar thru waivers once with no claims. Detwiler will probably only be on the team for a few days at most unless he does something special.

      Reply
      • AverageCommenter

        11 months ago

        It’s just the fact that Detwiler is a lefty while Dugger is a righty

        Reply
  4. Bobcastelliniscat

    11 months ago

    What is more to come and how can it possibly matter?

    As Phil Castellini says “Nick Krall is like a bull in a China shop”

    Reply
  5. pohle

    11 months ago

    wonder if they let duggar know hes only getting called up as a live arm on the mound or if they just cut him and call him up like pure business

    Reply
    • Bobcastelliniscat

      11 months ago

      Dugger is going to get his shot. When the Reds trade Castillo and Mahle at the deadline it will leave a lot of innings to be covered.

      Reply
      • bigredsfan41017

        11 months ago

        All I have to say Krall and Bell are insane. All they been doing is putting Dugger and others through the wringer. I feel it time to put the Reds through the wringer and boycott their games! Detweiler is an old pitcher that shouldn’t be on the roster because of the crappy front office and I’m fed up!!!

        Reply
        • Dunedin020306

          11 months ago

          bigredsfan41017 – “I am as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”.

          Name the movie.

        • joeshmoe11

          11 months ago

          Dude you get upset over every minute move the team makes. Neither player is a future cornerstone of the team and the clearly need a lefty out of the pen. Like I tell my 12U baseball team: take a deep breath and relax

        • joeshmoe11

          11 months ago

          Network, as spoken by Peter Finch

        • bigredsfan41017

          11 months ago

          Dude what your problem when can’t we voice our opinion? Fans are fed up with Castellini. I wonder if Castellini isn’t stealing money from the Reds so his produce company can survive!

  6. Bdonnell

    11 months ago

    So Dugger has been DFA’d 3 times within 2 weeks & twice by the Reds? Yikes, poor guy.

    Reply
  7. bigredsfan41017

    11 months ago

    #SellTheTeamBob

    Reply
  8. uvmfiji

    11 months ago

    Marlins North. Cincy deserves better.

    Reply

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