Cincinnati Reds acquire Tanner Roark from Nationals for Tanner Rainey

We’ve been following along with a lot of rumored deals involving the Cincinnati Reds since the Winter Meetings started earlier this week. So, of course the Reds come off the top rope this evening with a trade announcement that was on absolutely nobody’s radar.

Maybe I don’t follow all of the right people on Twitter, but I saw absolutely no rumors about this one before getting the Reds Twitter notification on my phone. So, quite the tight ship these Reds are running, I guess.

A couple of Tanner R.’s are swapping teams in this deal. This move actually somewhat qualifies the Get The Pitching mandate. While no one is going to mistake a 32-year-old Tanner Roark as the missing piece that makes the…