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- Updated: April 20, 2016
CINCINNATI — Reds manager Bryan Price slept on it Tuesday night and thought about it some more on Wednesday before deciding to make a change at the closer’s spot. J.J. Hoover is no longer locked in as the team’s closer and Price will use a closer-by-committee method.
“I talked to J.J., I told him ‘I’m going to bring you in different situations and sometimes that might be the ninth and sometimes it might be the seventh or eighth,'” Price said after the Reds’ 6-5 win over the Rockies. “He needs to get himself on a roll and start to pitch the way we’ve seen almost the entire 2015 season. Because I want him to be our closer — badly.”
Hoover wasn’t available to pitch anyway against the Rockies on Wednesday after he worked on back-to-back nights and three of the past four games.
Through seven appearances and 5 1/3 innings, Hoover has a 15.19 ERA and a 2.25 WHIP, with 10 runs (nine earned), eight hits, four walks and three home runs allowed. Asked to get the final two outs in the ninth inning on Tuesday, he gave up an infield single and Mark Reynolds’ two-run homer as the Reds had to hang on for a 4-3 victory over the Rockies.
Hoover gave up a three-run homer before his first save of the season vs. the Cardinals in a 9-8 win on Saturday. He also surrendered a grand slam on April 8 vs. …
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