Bill Bray, Cincinnati’s talented but often injured left-handed reliever, is being shut down and sent home for the rest of the season.
“He’s still on the DL,” pitching coach Bryan Price told the Cincinnati Enquirer’s John Fay. “He’s not going to be activated. He wasn’t going to pitch for us in September. He battled with a lot different stuff — his back, groin and knee. With the knee, he couldn’t run.”
Bray has pitched just 8 2/3 innings in between DL stints this year, walking 14 and allowing five runs. The Reds will probably non-tender him this winter rather than pay him another $1.5 million to be the third lefty in their pen next year.
A 2004 first-round pick of the Nationals, Bray has been with the Reds since mid-2006. He’s put in relatively full major league seasons just twice, but he was plenty good when he did. He had a 2.87 ERA in 63 appearances in 2008 and a 2.98 ERA in 48 1/3 innings last year.