Today we’ll wrap up the single step series.
November 16, 2000
Traded Eddie Taubensee to the Cleveland Indians. Received Jim Brower and Robert Purgmire.
On September 8th of 2000 Taubensee had back surgery, the Reds held 500K buyout on his contract and a 1.8 million dollar option, they took the salary option oddly enough and dealt Taubensee to […]
December 3, 1990
Eddie Taubensee drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 rule V draft.
Eddie Taubensee is eleventh in at bats (for a catcher) in Reds team history. A left handed slugger Eddie was obviously wanted by the Reds, wanted enough that they drafted for him twice, and traded for him after they lost […]
January 12, 1981
Signed Larry Biittner as a free agent.
Before the strike marred 1981 season the Reds were once again slow to move on player transactions. The key off-season move was the Reds dipping their toe into the free agent market for the first time when they signed 35-year-old Larry Biittner, coming off a .249/.294/.319 season […]