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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Reds Trade For Marlon Byrd








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The Reds traded its minor league pitcher of the year, Ben Lively, to the Phillies to obtain 37-year old outfielder Marlon Byrd.

 Byrd, in a career-high 154 appearances last season hit .264 with 28 doubles, a career-best 25 HR and 85 RBI. He led the Phillies in HR, extra-base hits (55) and total bases (263) while ranking second among all National League right fielders in HR and RBI.
 
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            A National League All-Star in 2010, Byrd has averaged 15 homers and 71 RBI over a 13-year Major League career with the Phillies, Washington Nationals, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates. He has 845 career appearances in center field, 398 appearances in right field and 144 appearances in left field. Byrd spent most of the last 2 seasons playing right field for the Mets and Phillies.
 
Byrd was a key acquisition for the Pirates down the stretch in the 2013 season in which the Pirates defeated the Reds in the wild card playoff game.
 
The 22-year old Lively was a combined 13-7 with a 3.04 ERA for Class A Bakersfield and Class AA Pensacola in 2014.
Posted by Gary Schatz at 5:01 PM

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