It’s clear that the Cincinnati Reds were planning all along to turn over their pitching to the young (read: cheap) arms still in the organization for the 2022 season. That’s pretty much what they did all offseason when Wade Miley, Sonny Gray, Mike Lorenzen, Mychal Givens, and Sean Doolittle all walked and the Reds did barely anything to address that from outside the organization.
Even the moves they did make - Mike Minor, for instance - have been buried by a spate of injuries, and that’s pretty much why the combo of Reiver Sanmartin and Jeff Hoffman were the two arms turned to for the bulk of the second game of this season.