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Cactus League, Game 9 - Luis Cessa takes the mound against Mike Trout

In Luis Cessa’s lone outing of Cactus League work so far, he yielded a solo homer in an inning of work. He’ll look to improve upon that effort today for the Cincinnati Reds as they travel to Tempe to take on Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels.

Cessa’s in quite the interesting position, really. With Justin Dunn’s shoulder injury, the path to a spot in the starting rotation appears to be much more open for him, but the reality is that the Reds could equally use his abilities in their banged-up, threadbare bullpen. Tejay Antone is out for months, Tony Santillan has been slow to get back into the swing of things, and it’s not like the Reds made many outside additions to a club whose 4.