Despite a winter of austerity and several large voids on their pitching staff, the Cincinnati Reds gave a guaranteed $2 million to former 1st round pick Luke Weaver to fit in somewhere within that discussion. Weaver, who will turn 30 years old in August, has pitched to just a 4.80 ERA and 1.35 WHIP since the start of the 2019 season, having moved through the Arizona Diamondbacks and Kansas City Royals in that time.
The guaranteed cash wasn’t so much an interesting question as was the role he would be tasked with filling. Those numbers since the start of the 2019 season came in just 217.