GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Alexis Diaz kept sitting in the Cincinnati Reds’ clubhouse day after day in spring training, wondering if this would finally be the day he’d learn he made the Opening Day roster.
His locker mate, reliever Daniel Duarte, and Dauri Moreta, another young reliever, learned they made the team with about a week left in camp.
Diaz was still in big-league camp as the Reds cut players and whittled down their roster, but he was the last one to know his fate. He kept wondering to himself, “When am I going to be told?