3:10pm: It’s a one-year contract, according to Gordon Wittenmyer of The Cincinnati Enquirer.
3:01pm: The Reds agreed to a deal with lefty reliever Caleb Ferguson, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The signing is still pending a physical.
Ferguson adds a needed left-handed option to Terry Francona’s bullpen. The Reds bought out Brent Suter at the beginning of the offseason. That left them with Sam Moll as their only lefty reliever. He had been up-and-down from Triple-A this year and gave up 16 runs across 18 1/3 MLB innings. Moll gets a decent number of whiffs and ground-balls and was a solid middle reliever between 2022-24, but the Reds couldn’t enter the season relying on him as their best option.
More to come.