After culling the roster of some of their most reliable relief arms and trimming the 40-man roster by nearly a quarter, it was clear the Cincinnati Reds were going to need to make some additions at some point. Given their desire to reduce payroll this winter, that was likely to come in the form of under-the-radar adds, players in whom they believed there to be much more future performance than established, back of the baseball card experience.
One such addition just might have been made on Wednesday. The Reds announced they’d signed former Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays reliever Édgar García on a one-year big league deal, adding an intriguing, if inexperienced righty with a fiery arm.