Cincinnati Reds interested in reliever Neftali Feliz

Without digging too deeply into their statistics, it’s pretty safe to say that both Anthony DeSclafani and Dan Straily had solid years as pitchers for the Cincinnati Reds in 2016, right? Certainly there are factors that limited their overall success - Disco’s oblique injury that cost him the early part of the season, Straily’s rather pedestrian K/BB ratio - but on the whole, they were two of the better pitchers the Reds rolled out last season, without a doubt.

According to FanGraphs, they combined for 3.2 WAR in 2016, with Disco at an even 2.0 and Straily at 1.2. Now, fWAR is far from a perfect metric, but it’s one that does a pretty decent job encapsulating many of the more important points…