The Reds are in agreement with left-hander Charlie Barnes on a minor league contract, reports Jon Morosi of MLB Network. Barnes has spent the past few seasons with the Lotte Giants in Korea. He was released in May after suffering a shoulder injury that came with a two-month recovery timetable (link via Jee-ho Yoo of Yonhap News).
Barnes has a bit of big league experience. He made nine appearances with the Twins in 2021, allowing a 5.92 ERA across 38 innings. Minnesota waived him at the end of that season, and Barnes embarked on his new career path in Korea. He spent parts of four seasons with Lotte. The Clemson product was effective for the first three years, surpassing 150 innings with an ERA of 3.62 or better in each.
The 29-year-old had a tougher go this season. Opponents tagged Barnes for 5.32 earned runs per nine across eight starts before Lotte shut him down with the injury. He will presumably report to Triple-A Louisville to serve as rotation or long relief depth and try to earn a late-season look with the big league club.
Every time Charlie Barnes goes to kick the rubber,
A girl named Lucy runs out on to the field and moves it!!
Another guy barely hanging on going to Louisville. That will help them make the playoffs, going for the cheap.
The idiocy continues.
Yeah, the idiocy does continue, but don’t be so hard on yourself.
This is purely depth. Every team signs these types of players, even the almighty Dodgers.
I think he thinks Louisville is in the NL and it’s the 1890’s. Is King Kong Kelley available to take some might swings? Maybe Noodles Hahn can help.
Some people do not get the concept. We should have picked up Paul Skenes.
We should have at least kicked the tires on Tarik Skubal. But no, Reds gotta cheap out like they always do.
(sarcasm in case it is not abundantly obvious)
Hmm, it’s an interesting signing considering you guys signed an ex-Lotte Giants Starting Pitcher and he became an excellent reliever (Brooks Raley) who had similar velocity on his fastball. Though Barnes is considerably younger than Raley was at the time.
Does his velocity still top out at 90? Difficult for that type of pitcher to succeed at the big league level.
His average fastball velocity is about 89 which is slightly slower than Brooks Raley had averaged in his last two years in the KBO as a starting pitcher
Brooks has a career 9 ERA at GABP.
10 2/3 IP isn’t exactly a large sample size