CHICAGO — Even before the Cincinnati Reds turned to the most oughta-be-gassed bullpen in the National League in the fourth inning again Thursday night, Reds lefty Alex Young called it “the elephant in the room.”
It’s the enormous workload the Reds bullpen has been asked to carry into August. An enormous part of why the Reds got to Thursday in first place in the National League Central.
And an even more enormous part of their prospects of being there when the season ends.
Did somebody say prospects?
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That’s one thing the Reds have plenty of — more good ones than they probably should by now, considering they didn’t use any of them to add a starting pitcher or to do anything more for the bullpen than to add journeyman depth lefty Sam Moll.