The Reds positioned left-hander Sam Moll on the 15-day injured record as we speak, and referred to as up righty Casey Legumina from Triple-A Louisville in a corresponding transfer. Moll is coping with a left shoulder impingement, and it’s “not going” that he’ll return earlier than the season is over, because the southpaw informed Gordon Wittenmyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Moll has been attempting to pitch by means of the harm for just a few weeks, and the difficulty may even date again to final season, when Moll stated he was additionally attempting to pitch by means of some shoulder discomfort in an effort to contribute to a contending Reds staff. Coming into this season, Moll started the 12 months on the 15-day injured record and didn’t make his season debut till April 23.
“I clearly don’t need it to snowball to what it did final offseason, the place it screwed up my offseason so far as preparation and main into clearly what I handled earlier this 12 months,” Moll stated. It isn’t but identified if Moll will simply must relaxation his shoulder, or if some type of process might be wanted to handle the issue.
Regardless of the dearth of a correct ramp-up within the spring, Moll nonetheless delivered some high quality innings out of Cincinnati’s bullpen. If that is certainly it for his 2024 marketing campaign, he’ll end the season with a 3.35 ERA, 25% strikeout charge, 9.2% stroll charge, and 46.9% grounder charge over 37 2/3 innings and 48 appearances. Moll isn’t a very onerous thrower, however his sinker and sweeper are plus pitches that induce loads of tender contact. Left-handed batters have solely a .430 OPS in 63 plate appearances in opposition to Moll this 12 months, and he has additionally been efficient in opposition to righty swingers to the tune of a .719 OPS in 89 PA.
This stable 2024 season comes on the heels of the 0.73 ERA Moll posted within the 24 2/3 innings he pitched for the Reds in 2023 after Cincinnati acquired him from the A’s on the commerce deadline. A veteran of 5 MLB seasons, Moll can be arbitration-eligible for the primary time this winter as he enters his age-33 season. If no injury-related problems intervene with the Reds’ resolution to tender Moll a contract, he’ll be in line for a pleasant increase to get him out of the minimum-salary vary.