The Cincinnati Reds reinstated infielder Jeimer Candelario from the injured record Monday and designated him for task.
The transfer comes only a 12 months after Cincinnati signed the veteran infielder to a three-year, $45 million contract.
“We felt this provides us our greatest probability to win video games to maintain the blokes we had right here versus activating him,” Nick Krall, the Reds’ president of baseball operations, mentioned Monday, according to The Athletic.
Krall referred to as it a “sunk price as a result of you may’t carry a participant that is not going to assist his workforce win.”
Candelario, 31, had began 12 video games at third base, seven at first base and three at designated hitter earlier than touchdown on the 10-day injured record in late April with a decrease again damage. He had struggled on the plate earlier than his damage, hitting simply. 113 with two residence runs and 13 RBIs in 22 video games. In an prolonged 17-game rehabilitation task at two minor league ranges, he hit .238 with a house run and 13 RBIs.
The ten-year main league veteran hit 20 residence runs with 56 RBIs in 2024, his first season with the Reds, however hit simply .234 and struck out 117 occasions in 112 video games.
He has a profession batting common of .237 with 110 residence runs and 384 RBIs in 880 video games.