The Cincinnati Reds are arguably one bat away from wrapping up a productive offseason, but to date, have made little in-roads. Cincinnati attempted to bring hometown slugger Kyle Schwarber back to southwest Ohio, but ultimately fell short in their pursuits.<\/p>\n
Based on recent Reds rumors from New York Post columnist Jon Heyman, the team hasn’t given up on a reunion with last year’s trade deadline acquisition Miguel Andujar<\/a>. According to Heyman, the Reds are one of several teams<\/a> interested in signing the free agent slugger.<\/p>\n In addition to the Reds, Heyman listed the San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, and even the team who traded him last summer, the Athletics, as potential landing spots for Andjuar.<\/p>\n Reds Rumors: Cincy has stiff competition for free agent slugger Miguel Andujar<\/p>\n Shortly after coming over from the A’s, Andujar became a fixture in the Reds lineup \u2014 especially against left-handed pitching. A leg injury slowed his productivity and limited his availability down the stretch, but when Andujar was in the lineup, he was a tough out for opposing pitchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds are arguably one bat away from wrapping up a productive offseason, but to date, have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-417217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}