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Red Sox Claim Jake Reed, Designate Eduard Bazardo

By Darragh McDonald | October 13, 2022 at 5:40pm CDT

The Red Sox have claimed right-hander Jake Reed off waivers from the Orioles, according to the transactions tracker at MLB.com. Fellow righty Eduard Bazardo was designated for assignment in a corresponding move.

Reed, 30, began the year with the Mets before waiver claims took him to the Dodgers, the Orioles and now the Red Sox, making this his fourth organization of 2022. Between last year and this year, he has a 5.74 ERA in his career, though in a fairly small sample of just 26 2/3 innings. That includes a 19.2% strikeout rate, 8.3% walk rate and 39.8% ground ball rate.

He’s generally fared better in the minor leagues and that was the case this year. In 23 1/3 innings on various farms, he put up a 3.09 ERA while striking out 25.5% of batters faced and walking just 7.8% of them. He still has one option year in tact, meaning the Sox can shuffle him between the majors and minors for all of next year as long as Reed continues to hang onto a 40-man roster spot.

For Bazardo, 27, this is the second time this year that the Sox have designated him for assignment. After the first instance in April, he cleared waivers and was outrighted, eventually getting selected back to the roster in September. Between last year and this year, he has 19 1/3 innings of MLB experience with a 2.76 ERA, 18.2% strikeout rate, 7.8% walk rate and 40% ground ball rate. In 57 1/3 innings at Triple-A this year, he put up a 3.45 ERA, striking out 23.5% of batters faced, walking 7.5% of them and getting grounders on 42% of balls in play. He has less than a year of MLB service time and a couple of options left, meaning any team that puts in a claim could keep him around as a depth option for the foreseeable future.

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37 Comments

  1. mattblaze13

    3 years ago

    The Red Sox claiming an oriole… what a joke. I am a Yankees fan.

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    • Cora the Destroya

      3 years ago

      Have you watched the Orioles? They were good this year, even small minded Yankee fans should know that.

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      • Bsadler

        3 years ago

        Not a Baltimore fan but a baseball fan of the Yanks & Pirates . The orioles was the first team in baseball to lose over hundred games the previous year and the next season have a winning record

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    • GaryWarriorsRedSox

      3 years ago

      The Yankees will be sitting at home in 3, 2, 1…

      Then they’ll spend the winter looking for a new right fielder. That’s quite a hole out there for next season.

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  2. mattblaze13

    3 years ago

    The Red Sox claiming an oriole…

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    • GaryWarriorsRedSox

      3 years ago

      Even the Titanic threw gold overboard.

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  3. AverageCommenter

    3 years ago

    And according to the geniuses on this site, this specific move makes bloom an idiot

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    • acell10

      3 years ago

      right on cue with the next comment….

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      • Fever Pitch Guy

        3 years ago

        acel – This marks the 262nd transaction of the year by the Boston Red Sox, according to Spotrac …. find another team, even a small market team, that has had more transactions this year.

        Like I said, throwing spit against the wall to see what sticks.

        Other teams do it far less, and usually with far more success. Look no further than the Yankees, who grabbed guys like Carpenter and Cortes off the scrap heap.

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        • acell10

          3 years ago

          Once again FPG the point is lost on you. A move like this neither makes not breaks a GM. Furthermore cherry picking the two best “scrape heap” moves by a team is a disingenuous way to support your argument.

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  4. dirty617water

    3 years ago

    World Series bound. Bloom GM of the year.

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  5. dirty617water

    3 years ago

    World Series bound! Bloom GM of the year!

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    • Chicken In Philly?

      3 years ago

      The exclamation points improved your previous post. Bravo.

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  6. DarkSide830

    3 years ago

    I fail to see what teams see in Reed…

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    • bwmiller

      3 years ago

      His arm slot doesn’t do a very good job of hiding the ball, you can see that in the thumbnail photo.

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  7. Dorothy_Mantooth

    3 years ago

    Yet another season of Bloom turning over the outskirts of the 40-man roster instead of addressing the core….sigh.

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    • Cora the Destroya

      3 years ago

      The off-season hasn’t started. If he continues once it does, I’m with you. But until then I’m hoping he follows what he said at the press conference. That at least had direction.

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      • Occams_hairbrush

        3 years ago

        Giving up on next year before this year even ended is a bad look.

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  8. dirty617water

    3 years ago

    Bazardo had two options remaining while this guy has one. Reed is a lot older too and hasn’t had great ERA’s during his career.

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  9. Lefty_Orioles_Fan

    3 years ago

    The Red Sox deserve Jake Reed
    Should have traded Reed for Story =)

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  10. dirty617water

    3 years ago

    Bloom must have claimed the wrong Reed. Probably thought it was Addison Reed

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  11. Samuel

    3 years ago

    Reading these comments it’s easy to understand why Ted Williams stopped talking to the Boston media and then expanded that to most of American writers.

    It used to be tradition when a player came into the dugout after making a big play and the fans were standing up applauding behind the dugout, to tip your cap to them. After a bit Ted got so fed up with the Red Sox fans that he refused to do it for the rest of his playing career.

    Am sure most of Red Sox fans that never saw him play yet idolize him as Mr. Red Sox don’t know this. Ted later forgave when he began the marketing part of his life after baseball retirement.

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    • Fever Pitch Guy

      3 years ago

      Samuel – Ted Williams was a good fisherman.

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      • User 4245925809

        3 years ago

        Ted and Yaz used to fish together sometimes on Lakes Lulu and Howard in Winter Haven during ST when Ted coached at ST during the ST for them.

        We lived cpl blocks over from Yaz’s ST home, which was on Lake Howard.

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    • PKCasimir

      3 years ago

      boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2017/08/07/ted-wi…

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      • Salvi

        3 years ago

        Amazing. . . Not one Brinks juror seated the first day.

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  12. DBH1969

    3 years ago

    I’ll be honest. I don’t know either of pitchers very well, so I have to go by the stats. Maybe the stats have a different meaning in the Sox front office. But it seems to me that Bazardo is the better pitcher with more team control.
    Will somebody please explain to me how I am reading the stats wrong?

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    • crshbng

      3 years ago

      Your not reading them wrong, i’m a bit confused too

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    • Doug S.

      3 years ago

      Thank you!! What is going on here?!?

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    • acell10

      3 years ago

      neither pitcher was probably going to make the 40 man roster. Basardo has already clear waivers once this year so chances are he will again. This is pretty nothing move either way. I appreciate that people are passionate but I don’t think it’s really worth overthinking why a team makes a minor league transaction like this.

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      • GaryWarriorsRedSox

        3 years ago

        Right this is just adding to depth when they can. They’ll pick up the second guy and probably not lose the first guy. Good call.

        Definitely come in handy in trades. Adding another name or two or three to a deal helps sell the return back home to the receiving team. Can never have too many players with at least some kind of potential.

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  13. Stan Papi

    3 years ago

    Surprised it’s not Jody Reed. I know he is 60 and retired years ago but he probably is a better choice the Story at short once Xander leaves.

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  14. Nobby

    3 years ago

    Bloom needs to be taken for a Duck Boat ride and when the boat gets to the Charles River, see how well he can swim.

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    • traderumors

      3 years ago

      Somebody please tell Chaim that he’s in a big market now so all these little transactions won’t impress his boss. Work smarter, not harder.

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      • acell10

        3 years ago

        seems like someone needs to remind you that the offseason hasn’t started yet so all he can do until 10 days after the World Series is make these little transactions…

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  15. madmc44

    3 years ago

    …and who cares if Bloom is playing around with the last 5-15 slots on the 40 looking for a diamond or two in the rough. I’m more concerned about the pitching than position players.

    If Sale can opt out this year do we have to wait a year before we get a conditional pick?
    If Bloom could ever work out a deal for Story that would not disappoint me.–might have to be a PTBNL–3 months into the ’23 season. Sign Xander, Extend Devers. Now that MLB knows how to pitch to Judge and keep the ball in the park the Dodgers will be the winner of that sweepstake prize. not the Yanks or Mets.
    I’m looking forward to Bryan Mata; seems like we have been waiting forever for him. and he’s only 23. Bello?. Wacha? Whitlock? Edvaldi? Pivetta is a tough guy to give up on?
    The Pen: Barnes–what do you do with him? Zack Kelly, had a decent end of year. Schreiiber and Strahm were their best.. Bloom needs to find a stopper in the bullpen.
    Not named Aroldis or Craig in my estimation..
    I would be very happy with Arroyo @ 2B.. he’s a grinder and a very capable utility guy. . Might they try to sign Vazquez? or does he go to the Cards? Probably depends on how the Astros do? Do they use Hosmer as a LH DH: Dalbec as a RH DH?
    Pham and Refsnyder both had decent seasons. Hernandez & Verdugo will stay.
    JD–time to go?
    Catchers–McGuire & Wong ( Unless they resign Vazquez)
    Pitchers: Bello, Mata, Wacha, Eovaldi, Whitlock, Sale, Pivetta, Barnes, Strahm, Kelly, Brasier,,Schreiber, Crawford, Weber ( off waivers from Yankees.
    INF: Devers, Bogaerts. Story, Casas, Arroyo. Chang beats out Dalbec..

    OF: Hernandez, Verdugo, Refsnyder, Duran,

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    • GaryWarriorsRedSox

      3 years ago

      Your new squad is too much like this year’s squad. Last place. But I did enjoy your post and analysis just not the final roster.

      Reply

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