{"id":352518,"date":"2025-12-16T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352518\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:19:07","slug":"reds-to-sign-caleb-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352518\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds To Sign Caleb Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3:10pm: It\u2019s a one-year contract, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GDubMLB\/status\/2001036772306768244\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gordon Wittenmyer of The Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3:01pm: The Reds agreed to a deal with lefty reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/ferguca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caleb Ferguson<\/a>, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2001033955899007292\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ken Rosenthal of The Athleti<\/a>c. The signing is still pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson adds a needed left-handed option to Terry Francona\u2019s bullpen. The Reds bought out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suterbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brent Suter<\/a> at the beginning of the offseason. That left them with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mollsa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Moll<\/a> 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\u2019t enter the season relying on him as their best option.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:10pm: It\u2019s a one-year contract, according to Gordon Wittenmyer of The Cincinnati Enquirer. 3:01pm: The Reds agreed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,31393,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-352518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-caleb-ferguson","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}