{"id":373097,"date":"2025-12-28T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373097\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:18:10","slug":"reds-trade-for-18-sb-6-hr-outfielder-from-marlins-for-outfield-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373097\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds trade for 18-SB, 6-HR outfielder from Marlins for outfield prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> made an under-the-radar trade on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was reported by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GDubMLB\/status\/2005029633616425274?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gordon Wittenmyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>: Dane Myers is coming from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> to the Reds in exchange for outfield prospect Ethan O&#8217;Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>Myers is an intriguing outfield talent that should make the MLB roster for the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>He entered pro baseball as a pitching draft pick in 2017 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a>, but he converted to a hitter in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up making his MLB debut with the Marlins in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He has 172 MLB games so far with a .245 average and solid centerfield defense.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Myers stole 18 bases and hit six home runs.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/news\/team-usa-projected-wbc-lineup-bryce-harper-news\/8f6511f6d5033b252b594217\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Team USA&#8217;s projected WBC lineup is incredible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has one of the top outfield arms in baseball and is also in the top quarter of the league in sprint speed.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds could count on Myers at least on the short-side of an outfield platoon against left-handed pitching, and at 29 years old, he could still prove capable of playing every day in a pinch.<\/p>\n<p>The given up outfielder O&#8217;Donnell played the entire 2025 season at Double-A Chattanooga and hit .236 with seven home runs and 20 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like a big cost to give up to get a sure-thing major league player like Myers.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds made an under-the-radar trade on Saturday. The deal was reported by Gordon Wittenmyer of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-373097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}