The Reds announced this morning that they’ve selected the contract of right-hander Randy Wynne. Wynne is being brought in to replace righty Carson Spiers, who is headed to the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder impingement. No 40-man roster move was necessary to accommodate the addition of Wynne, though the Reds’ 40-man roster is now full.
Wynne, 32, was signed by the Reds out of the independent Frontier League back in 2019. He’s been working his way through the Reds organization ever since, climbing the minor league ladder and even getting a brief call-up to the majors back in 2023. He surrendered one run in 2 1/3 frames during his lone big league outing and was outrighted off the club’s 40-man roster not long after. Despite that relatively brief stint in the majors, Wynne has remained in the Reds organization as a swingman at Triple-A. He’s done fairly well for himself there in recent years, with a 4.16 ERA in 93 innings last season and a 3.06 ERA across his first four starts of the 2025 campaign.
He’ll take the vacated roster spot of Spiers, who threw 94 pitches yesterday over four innings of relief. The righty has a 6.08 ERA across 13 1/3 innings this year, his third season as a swing man for the Reds. Spiers’s work on the mound for Cincinnati has generally been serviceable but below-average overall, with most of those innings coming last season when he threw 90 2/3 frames of 5.46 ERA ball split between ten starts and 12 relief appearances. The severity of Spiers’s injury is not yet known, but he’ll miss at least the next two weeks as he nurses the injury.
The Reds are unlikely to need Wynne as a rotation piece as presently constructed given that Nick Lodolo should be back from the paternity list soon, meaning he’s likely to fill a similar long relief role to the one Spiers was slated for. It wouldn’t be a shock if the righty’s first appearance came today, given that reliever Brent Suter has been announced as today’s starter. Suter has looked solid this year with a 2.70 ERA despite a 4.52 FIP, but he last logged significant time as a starter back in 2018 and has maxed out at two innings to this point in the 2025 campaign. Given that Wynne is stretched out as a starter, it would make sense if the team’s plan against the Orioles today is for Suter to throw an inning or two before Wynne takes over as a bulk reliever.
He’ll never be as good as the OG Randy Winn from TB!
Wait, wait, wait, THAT Randy Wynn???????
Not to be confused with the OG – Randy Winn!
Any relation to Marvell Wynne, the outfielder for the Pirates among others?
Wow! Pitching for the Reds and doing post game shows for the Giants. What a renaissance man!
Spiers to the IL with shoulder impingement. So nice of Francona to just leaving him out there for 90+ pitches with nobody warming up as he was getting pounded yesterday.
That was painful to watch in a game that was not out of reach at the time.
I don’t think he had much choice with a bullpen burned out in recent games. But a shame they ruined the kid’s arm for a while.
As usual, this bullpen will be burned out by July. Greene is already regressing to his normal pitch inefficient self eith the previous long outings wearing on him already and Lodolo can barely make five innings.
Meanwhile, the front office decides to sacrifice this game today with another cast off starter when they have better options they choose not to promote.
I fully understand what the “plan” was but he was getting toasted and the game was still within reach.
Was just flipping through and turned that game on. Just hard to fathom a guy “taking one for the team” and ending up with that cost.
Probably a wink-wink “injury” for Spiers.
What a horrible take on things. Hunter Greene has one bad outing in his fifth game of the season and you say he’s “regressing”. Greene has been an ace, and even aces have bad days.
Lodolo goes at least 6 innings in 3 of his 4 starts yet you claim he can barely make 5 innings.
Do you even follow this team?
And the Reds only gave up 2 runs today in a game that you declared they sacrificed.
Just stop.
What a bunch of dums in here like any of you ass clown can do better
Aren’t you late for third period English?
The irony of you calling people “dums”.
But will he be traded for Lou Piniella?
Randy Winn was one of my favorite Mariners mid 2000’s. Got him back in the trade for Lou Piniella. Was a very underrated player.
Reds gonna roll with a Wynne-Wynns battery called up from AAA.
Part of Carson Spiers job is to pitch ML innings for the Reds in less than optimal situations. Carson said he tried to pitch through the injury without reporting it to the coaches.Anyway it worked as Reds “bullpen day” allowed only 1 ER in a 24 to 2 victory. Meanwhile Carson Spiers begins logging IL days while on the ML roster- thus accruing time towards ML benefits.
He looked fairly decent in the 3 innings of work Mirrored his Triple-A numbers..