The Reds have despatched right-hander David Buchanan outright to Triple-A Louisville, in line with his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That signifies he cleared waivers after being designated for project earlier this week.
Buchanan, 35, was seemingly an emergency choice for the Reds. Their rotation had been with out Graham Ashcraft and Brandon Williamson for a lot of the season on account of damage. In August, every of Hunter Greene, Nick Lodolo, Andrew Abbott and Christian Roa went on the injured checklist.
They despatched money to the Phillies to get Buchanan on the finish of final month. He was eligible to be traded after the deadline since, on the time, he hadn’t been on a 40-man roster in 2024. He had signed a minor league cope with the Phillies within the offseason and had a 4.82 earned run common in 102 2/3 Triple-A innings earlier than the deal.
Shortly after buying him, the Reds added him to their roster so as to present a multi-inning choice to their employees. The membership deployed a bullpen recreation on August 31, with Buchanan tossing 3 1/3 innings, permitting one earned run on two hits and two walks whereas putting out one Brewer. Williamson was reinstated from the 60-day injured checklist the following day, with Buchanan designated for project to open up spots on each the energetic and 40-man rosters.
That one outing was Buchanan’s first within the majors since 2015, when he was with the Phillies. He was pitching in Japan from 2017 to 2019 after which in Korea from 2020 via 2023, earlier than returning to North America this yr. He now has a 4.97 ERA in 195 2/3 MLB innings, with nearly a decade in between his time with the Phillies and his time with the Reds.
That is his first profession outright and he has lower than three years of main league service time. Although the Reds obtained Williamson again, the pitching employees continues to be pretty snakebitten. Buchanan can present them with some non-roster depth for the following few weeks and will maybe be summoned again to the majors in the event that they want reinforcements once more.
