Reds DFA Candelario halfway through $45M deal

The Cincinnati Reds reinstated infielder Jeimer Candelario from the injured database Monday and designated him for assignment.

The determination comes conscionable a twelvemonth aft Cincinnati signed the seasoned infielder to a three-year, $45 cardinal contract.

"We felt this gives america our champion accidental to triumph games to support the guys we had present versus activating him," Nick Krall, the Reds' president of shot operations, said Monday, according to The Athletic.

Krall called it a "sunk outgo due to the fact that you can't bring a subordinate that's not going to assistance his squad win."

Candelario, 31, had started 12 games astatine 3rd base, 7 astatine archetypal basal and 3 astatine designated hitter earlier landing connected the 10-day injured database successful precocious April with a little backmost injury. He had struggled astatine the sheet earlier his injury, hitting just. 113 with 2 location runs and 13 RBIs successful 22 games. In an extended 17-game rehabilitation duty astatine 2 insignificant league levels, helium deed .238 with a location tally and 13 RBIs.

The 10-year large league seasoned deed 20 location runs with 56 RBIs successful 2024, his archetypal play with the Reds, but deed conscionable .234 and struck retired 117 times successful 112 games.

He has a vocation batting mean of .237 with 110 location runs and 384 RBIs successful 880 games.