As the Cincinnati Reds have and continue to trim their roster down to for Opening Day, most fans would say that they were surprised when Nick Senzel was sent to Triple-A Louisville. However, Phillip Ervin might have been the most surprising cut. His performance recently certainty makes this argument valid.
Ervin’s numbers this spring really caught the eye of many fans. In Cactus League play, Ervin hit .341 with a .438 on-base percentage, 5 home runs, and 8 RBIs in 48 plate appearances. I’m typically not one to value or deduce too much about a player from these statistics, usually because its such a small sample size and most of these numbers may come against low-level minor leaguers.