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Reds Select Evan Kravetz

By Darragh McDonald | August 28, 2024 at 2:40pm CDT

The Reds announced today that they have selected the contract of left-hander Evan Kravetz. Right-hander Casey Legumina has been optioned to Triple-A Louisville in a corresponding active roster move. To open a 40-man spot, outfielder Stuart Fairchild has been transferred to the 60-day injured list.

Kravetz, 27, gets the call to the show for the first time. He was selected by the Reds in the fifth round of the 2019 draft and has been climbing the minor league ladder since then. He made his professional debut with one inning in Rookie ball in his draft year, but then the minor leagues were wiped out by the pandemic in 2020.

Since then, as he’s moved towards the higher levels of the minors, he has racked up plenty of strikeouts but also given out plenty of walks. From 2021 to 2024, he has tossed 243 1/3 minor league innings, allowing 3.99 earned runs per nine. He has struck out 28% of batters faced in that time but also given out free passes at an 11.1% rate. That includes 42 1/3 Triple-A innings this year with a 3.40 ERA, 25% strikeout rate and 11.7% walk rate.

The Cincinnati pitching staff has been fairly snakebit of late. Each of Andrew Abbott, Hunter Greene, Nick Lodolo and Christian Roa have hit the injured list this month. Jakob Junis made an emergency start yesterday and he was followed by five relievers, including Legumina. Thanks to a double-header coming up on Friday, the club is in the midst of a stretch wherein they play eight games in seven days.

The club needs all the help it can get to survive the coming week, so Kravetz has been summoned to be a part of the solution. The Reds are also reportedly calling up prospect Rhett Lowder to handle one of the two games on Friday. Both pitchers will be making their respective MLB debuts as soon as they take the mound.

Fairchild was placed on the 10-day IL yesterday due to a left thumb sprain. Evidently, the Reds don’t expect him back this year, based on this transfer. He’ll spend the rest of the season on the 60-day IL but will need to be added back onto the 40-man in the offseason, as there is no IL from five days after the World Series until the start of Spring Training.

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9 Comments

  1. This one belongs to the Reds

    1 year ago

    Casey struck out again.

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  2. Suncloud

    1 year ago

    Good. Now sign Joey to a 1 year $40 million contract so that he finally gets the respect and retirement tour that he deserves and then make him the GM and or Manager and or hitting coach for 2026.

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    • b00giem@n

      1 year ago

      I do agree that Votto would do well in some coaching capacity here. Let’s be honest though, anything would be better than David Bell.

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  3. Armaments216

    1 year ago

    Could be the best Reds lefty out of Rice U since Norm Charlton. Maybe the only one too.

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  4. octavian8

    1 year ago

    Sounds like another roster manipulation thru the IL. Not criticizing the Reds but MLB for allowing it

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    • heartsofiron

      1 year ago

      how is this roster manipulation if Fairchild wasn’t going to be back this year?

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  5. octavian8

    1 year ago

    Sounds like another roster manipulation thru the IL. Not criticizing the teams doing it but MLB for allowing it

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  6. tonyinsingapore

    1 year ago

    This is what he has been waiting for – make the most of it !

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  7. Logjammer D"Baggagecling

    1 year ago

    Any relation to Lenny?

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