The Cincinnati Reds rebuilt the bench following the trade of Brandon Phillips to the Atlanta Braves. That did a couple of things. It meant that their super bench player, Jose Peraza, was going to be in the starting line-up.
More importantly for a player like former Seattle Mariner top prospect Patrick Kivlehan, it meant that the Reds needed to find a true back-up center fielder. With Peraza starting at second base there was no longer a true center fielder on the bench. That gave Arismendy Alcantara his job and then Kivlehan in some ways his job as well.