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In praise of Pedro Villarreal, the Reds’ unsung Garbage Man

On the surface, labeling Pedro Villarreal a “garbage man” is patently unfair. Villarreal, after all, is a professional baseball player with 65.1 innings pitched in the best baseball league in the world. When one considers that a very small amount of pro ball players advance to the major leagues, and that an even smaller amount of those chosen few locate something resembling stability in the bigs, I can proclaim with utmost confidence that in the grand scheme of the entire pro baseball universe, Pedro Villarreal is a good baseball player.

However, Villarreal does have his limitations. For his career, Villarreal’s fastball averages 92.