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- Updated: May 22, 2016
CINCINNATI — The Reds hope to have some pitchers activated from the disabled list next month, and there are certainly some prospects the organization likes at Triple-A Louisville. Add those two facts together with how Alfredo Simon is pitching this season, and he could be on borrowed time in the rotation.
In the Reds’ 5-4 loss to the Mariners, their seventh in a row and 10th in the last 11 games, Simon lasted five innings and allowed five earned runs with nine hits. It dropped him to a 1-5 record with a 10.16 ERA, the highest in the Majors among pitchers with at least 35 innings.
“We would like him to pitch better,” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “He started a lot of games and we need the innings as a veteran pitcher, and that will start when he starts getting the ball down. In the same respect, at some point in time, I have to see him begin to improve and give us those types of innings.”
Simon was signed in Spring Training for $2 million to be a veteran presence in a young rotation that was beat up by injuries. Of his eight starts, two have gone at least six innings. In his previous outing on Tuesday against …
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