Cincinnati Reds big man said injuries has killed his…
The Cincinnati Reds have played 55 games so far this season and their team’s leader in both bWAR and fWAR from last year, TJ Friedl, has logged just 24 PA all season. A pair of rather freak injuries – first a broken wrist suffered in spring training while diving for a ball in CF, next a busted thumb on a hit-by-pitch – have shelved him for all but 6 of those 55 games, but that will again change beginning on Wednesday prior to the series finale against the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Reds officially activated Friedl from the injured list Wednesday morning, designating veteran infielder Mike Ford for assignment to make way on the active roster.
The #Reds today activated from the 10-day injured list OF TJ Friedl (left thumb fracture) and designated for assignment IF Mike Ford.
Friedl’s return will hopefully begin to resurrect the moribund Cincinnati offense, whose team-wide .294 wOBA ranks as the 3rd worst in all of baseball.
It was thought at one time that Ford himself would give the team a boost with the bat, the slugger having posted a .343 wOBA with 16 dingers for the Seattle Mariners just last year. Alas, he’s slumped just as bad (if not worse) than the rest of his Cincinnati peers since being released and resigned with just a .183 wOBA and a lone dinger in 62 PA across 17 games played.
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Ford’s on-again, off-again, on-again contract saga with the Reds at the beginning of May eventually earned him a full $1.3 million guarantee, which means that’s what he’ll get from the Reds over the course of this season while presumably plying his trade elsewhere.
Friedl is in the lineup today at leadoff and playing CF, by the way.
The team’s leadoff man has finally returned (again)!
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