Yunior Marte Joins Reds as Ashcraft Lands on 60-Day IL
yunior marte is back in the majors after the Reds selected his contract and moved Graham Ashcraft to the 60-day injured list with a sprain in his ulnar collateral ligament. Cincinnati had to create room on both the active roster and the 40-man roster to make the switch, and the timing leaves the bullpen thinner while Ashcraft is out for an extended stretch.
Reds Add Marte, Lose Ashcraft
Marté returns to the big leagues for the first time in a couple of years. The right-hander had been in Triple-A this season, but the Reds pulled him up as they looked for another arm after Ashcraft’s injury forced a roster move.
Ashcraft’s last outing came Monday, when he threw a scoreless inning with two strikeouts and a groundout. There was no indication anything was wrong in that appearance, which makes the 60-day placement a sharper turn than the inning itself suggested.
Marté’s Path Back
From 2022 to 2024, Marté pitched for the Giants and Phillies and posted a 5.64 ERA over 113 1/3 innings. He spent 2025 in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball and turned in a 1.95 ERA, then signed a minor league deal with the Reds in the offseason.
This year at Triple-A, he logged 19 1/3 innings and posted a 5.12 ERA. Marté is out of options, so the Reds did not have much flexibility once they decided to bring him back onto the major league roster.
Reds’ Leverage Depth
The injury hits a bullpen that had already lost Emilio Pagán earlier this month to a hamstring strain. Ashcraft had given Cincinnati 23 holds last year and carried a 3.99 ERA, while he has a 3.33 ERA in 2026.
That leaves Tony Santillan, Brock Burke and Pierce Johnson as the remaining leverage options while Pagán and Ashcraft are on the injured list. Cincinnati’s move for Marté is less about a reset than a short-term patch, and the roster now has to hold up without one of its most useful late-inning arms.
