Despite his torrid Cactus League play, I’d never gotten around to using a picture of Mike Ford in a Cincinnati Reds uniform this spring. It seems only right that he get that honor once, though given that the above is the lone image of him in the Getty files it figures to be the last.
Ford was granted his release from the Reds on Friday after being informed he would not make the club’s Opening Day roster, part of a series of moves that saw Tony Santillan reassigned to minor league camp. It was also determined that lefty Sam Moll would predictably begin the season on the 15-day IL, meaning all that remained Goodyear was the group that would form the team’s Opening Day roster on Thursday.