The Reds today signed C Tucker Barnhart to a minor league contract.

Tucker Barnhart (Photo: Doug Gray)

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ds sign Exhaust Barnhart to a small time bargain

The Cincinnati Reds are rejoining with a previous player. Today the group marked catcher Exhaust Barnhart to a small time bargain as indicated by Jon Heyman of the New York Post.

Cincinnati is battling with getting profundity at present. At the point when the club saw Luke Maile go on the harmed list they needed to hit up a catcher from Louisville. The player they called up was Eric Yang, who the group had such a lot of confidence in that he had been the third string catcher in Louisville and Chattanooga for most of the time and was put on the improvement list – which basically implies a person isn’t harmed, yet additionally not on the dynamic program but rather the group would rather not discharge him.

Yang, who got on at-bat during his call up, was assigned for task subsequent to being sent back to the minors, cleared waivers, and was outrighted back to Louisville yesterday.

Marking Exhaust Barnhart assists the group with staying away from that sort of circumstance pushing ahead as long as Barnhart can stay solid. The 33-year-old invested energy this year in the major associations with Arizona. He played in 31 games, yet he battled to hit during his experience with the Diamondbacks, posting a .173/.287/.210 line in his 96 plate appearances. His keep going game came on June 30th and Arizona assigned him for task on July second and afterward gave him his delivery on July sixth.

The Indiana local hasn’t been with Cincinnati since the 2021 season when he played in 116 games for the Reds. Over his eight seasons with the Reds, Barnhart hit .248/.324/.371 with 51 homers. In both the 2017 and 2020 seasons he was granted the Public Association’s Gold Glove Grant for his protective ability behind the plate.

Cincinnati exchanged him November of 2021 to Detroit for small time player Scratch Quintana (played for Dayton and Chattanooga, yet is not generally in subsidiary baseball). Barnhart burned through one year in Detroit and afterward endorsed with the Offspring, Dodgers, and Diamondbacks as a free specialist over the course of the following schedule year.