{"id":88377,"date":"2024-10-28T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=88377"},"modified":"2024-10-28T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:59:10","slug":"amed-rosario-dfa-cincinnati-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/28\/amed-rosario-dfa-cincinnati-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds Designate Veteran Infielder for Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds have made roster moves to enable the return of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/encarch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian Encarnacion-Strand<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mclaima01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt McLain<\/a> from the 60-day injured list.\u00a0Both players have completed their rehabilitation assignments in the Arizona Fall League, which have now reached the maximum duration permitted for such assignments.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the team\u2019s 40-man roster for these two players, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/1850980635072225771\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLB Insider Robert Murray<\/a> reports that the organization has designated left-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/leibrbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Leibrandt<\/a> and infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosaram01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amed Rosario<\/a> for assignment. This decision was necessary to ensure that Encarnacion-Strand and McLain can rejoin the team as they look to contribute to the Reds\u2019 postseason hopes. The team is hoping that these reinforcements will bolster their performance as the season progresses.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<h2 class=\"x1e56ztr\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs xt0psk2 xt4736n x1havqas x1f0sm9e x12qp5cl xzsf02u x1yc453h\">Amed Rosario&#8217;s Reds Tenure Comes to a Close<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">This season, Rosario played for three teams. He started the year with the Tampa Bay Rays after signing a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/20\/amed-rosario-tampa-bay-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">one-year deal<\/a> in the offseason. Later, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2021\/01\/29\/eddie-rosario-signs-with-the-cleveland-indians\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> to provide positional depth due to several injuries affecting their roster. The Reds claimed Rosario off waivers on August 18 after the Dodgers designated him for assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the departures, Rosario was an above-average offensive contributor. Rosario hit a solid .280\/.306\/.4380 line while splitting time between second base, shortstop, third base and right field. Rosario emerged as an alternative to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marteno01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noelvi Marte<\/a>\u00a0at the hot corner, as Marte struggled after returning from his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/08\/mlb-suspends-reds-noelvi-marte\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">80-game suspension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leibrandt was a sixth-round pick by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2014 MLB Draft. He made his way through the minor leagues with the club to reach Triple-A during the 2018 season. Unfortunately, Leibrandt missed time due to injuries, prompting the Phillies to release him in 2020. Leibrandt joined the Miami Marlins and launched his MLB career that summer. He has pitched 9 innings with the Marlins in 2020 and 6 1\/3 innings with the Reds in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Katie Stratman-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds have made roster moves to enable the return of\u00a0Christian Encarnacion-Strand\u00a0and\u00a0Matt McLain from the 60-day injured list.\u00a0Both players have completed their rehabilitation assignments in the Arizona Fall League, which have now reached the maximum duration permitted for such assignments. To make room on the team\u2019s 40-man roster for these two players, MLB Insider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":88382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1071,35],"tags":[1517,5870,92,4783,5847,566],"class_list":["post-88377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reds","category-mlb","category-news","tag-amed-rosario","tag-christian-encarnacion-strand","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-matt-mclain","tag-noelvi-marte","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}