Right-hander Derek Law has been told that he’s made the Reds’ Opening Day roster, reports Bobby Nightengale of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Law was in camp on a minor league deal and will need to be added to the club’s 40-man roster.
Law, 32, has pitched in each of the past six full MLB seasons, suiting up for the Giants, Blue Jays, Twins, Tigers and Reds in that time. He’s made 193 appearances in that time, posting a 4.21 ERA with a 21.9% strikeout rate, 9.8% walk rate and 46.3% ground ball rate.
Last year, Law signed a minors deal with Detroit and got selected to the big league roster in June, but he was designated for assignment after just two appearances. The Reds scooped him up by signing him to another minor league deal and added him to the roster shortly thereafter. He made 15 appearances for them down the stretch and finished the year with a 4.12 ERA. The Reds could have retained Law via arbitration but non-tendered him instead, though they re-signed him on another minors deal in January.
The righty has earned his way back onto the roster for this season’s opener with an excellent spring. Through 7 1/3 innings, he has a 1.23 ERA, striking out 10 opponents while walking just one. Manager David Bell says that Law is in line for high leverage work, alongside Buck Farmer, Ian Gibaut and Fernando Cruz, with Alexis Díaz in the closing role.
Since Law is not yet on the 40-man roster, the club will need to open a spot for him between now and Opening Day. They could do so by placing a player on the 60-day injured list, with right-hander Justin Dunn perhaps the most likely since he’s been shut down for a few months due to a shoulder injury.
At least the Reds will finally be done with joey votto’s sorry ass after this season.
Joey Votto has been the best Reds player since Barry Larkin. What the heck are you talking about? I’ve never met a Reds fan that hated Votto.
He’s a hateful, bitter troll. Who is quickly becoming one of the most unbearable commenters on the site. Don’t feed the troll.
Enjoy watching the corpse of Yuli Gurriel this season before you trade your Cy Young winner and enter yet another rebuild.
yuli gurriel is a POS and the Marlins offseason grade is a D- for that reason.
My theory is that he made an account just to piss off the few people he manages to offend. He chose “marlinsfan” for the sake of irony. Everything he says about another team can be reflected ten fold on his “favorite” team. It is a poor attempt at comedy but he is getting what he wants.
A shame they will have to deal Alcantara but we have been there with Castillo, and to a lesser extent Gray and Mahle.
Imagine the Reds rotation if they still had Castillo and Mahle.
I emphasize with all small market fans that have to go through this.
Just admit you’re a hater and let us all move on from your incoherent dribble
He was decent last season. Probably one of the better dumpster dive relievers. Doesn’t light up the radar gun, but gets the job done most times which is the idea.
He was great for Toledo. He was a very successful closer. Terrible stint in Detroit though and they outright released him. Surprising they didn’t just demote him.
Derek Law did a decent job last season & looked good this spring. He also has 3 years of control, but no options. My concern is how will he survive the possible activations of Sims, Santillan, & Weaver scheduled for later in April?
Probably will depend on how guys like Gibaut, Sousa, Cruz, and Overton pitch and whether Weaver pushes Cessa back to the bullpen.
Let’s hope they all are doing well and make the decision tougher.
Yah! One for the Laws. Wish he’d stayed a Giant. He’s a good guy.
At this point the Reds will take what they can get, any injuries will be tragic, very thin in the backup department, hey where else you gonna go