MLB Insider Weighs In on Reds Approach to the Trade Deadline

The Cincinnati Reds have lost three straight games and now sit 3 1/2 games out of the third National League Wild Card spot.

ESPN insider Jeff Passan shared his insight of how the Reds might approach the trade deadline.

Passan noted Jaren Duran from the Red Sox would be the best fit, but mentioned he doesn't think that the Reds would be willing to part with what it would take to get him.

"So as much as a bold move would behoove the Reds, they're likelier to go the half-measure route, operating on the periphery of the bat and relief markets through incremental upgrades and hoping that Terry Francona can sprinkle his pixie dust downstate the same way he did in Cleveland for more than a decade," Passan wrote.

If the Reds want to continue to make a push for the playoffs, they need another bat as well as a bullpen arm or two.

“There’s a lot of teams in it right now. There are a lot of teams trying to figure out where they are," Reds President of Baseball Operations Nick Krall told Mark Sheldon. "I think you’re just trying to feel your way through it right now, and having conversations with other teams.”

You can see Passan's full article here.