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MacPhail seemed to dismiss Uggla, preferring a natural third baseman, so this would require a shift in thinking. Joe Crede is a possibility on the free-agent market.

Aggressive base running has been part of the Reds’ strategy this season, including using pinch runners at third base. A big reason is that this Reds team is faster, as a whole, than we’ve seen ...

And if you get the old-schooler thinking about how high the strikeout rates are these days, and how high wild pitch rates are, you might get them to agree that getting a guy to third base was ...

Bigbie on Sunday was batting .245 in 60 games for the Mud Hens, with a .341 on-base and .358 slugging percentage, which computes to a .699 OPS — well beneath the numbers mandated for an outfielder.