The additions of Brach and Vincent give the Braves a veteran safety net, should they require one..
The Reds will place Brach on outright waivers or release waivers in the coming days, and any club will be able to claim him for the final few weeks of the regular season.
Signed to a minor league deal May 6, the Reds selected Brach’s contract May 21. The righty went on to log 29 innings out of the Cincy bullpen, with an ERA of 5.59.
Will he opt out of the final two years of his contract?
Sims has been out since late June with an elbow sprain. As for Brach, a timeline for his injury is unknown.
Team USA has yet to formally announce its roster or a list of players who’ll train at their camp in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
The 35-year-old righty spent spring training with the Royals and was selected to their MLB roster last month, but Kansas City designated him for assignment before he got into a game.
Holland was largely a great reliever with the Royals from 2010-15, but he underwent Tommy John surgery in the last of those seasons and missed the team’s World Series run.
We’re currently about a month into the 2018 Major League Baseball season, and while there is obviously a long way to go, it is not terribly difficult to imagine which teams might be contenders into the summer and which ones won’t.
No area of the game has undergone a more dramatic overhaul in recent years than the role of the reliever. Long gone are the days of burnt-out starters hidden in the bullpen as a walking path to the closer.
There is only one question to ask when discussing the Baltimore Orioles in 2017: what the hell happened here? Just a few months ago, the O’s looked as if their breakout of 2016 had just been the start of something much bigger.
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