Sources: Reds acquiring 3B Hayes from Pirates

The Cincinnati Reds are acquiring 3rd baseman Ke'Bryan Hayes from the Pittsburgh Pirates successful speech for reliever Taylor Rogers and imaginable Sammy Stafura, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan connected Wednesday.

The 28-year-old Hayes, who is signed done 2029, is hitting .236 with 2 location runs successful 369 at-bats for Pittsburgh, wherever helium has spent the entirety of his six-year career.

The Reds fertile 28th successful OPS from their 3rd basemen this season, compiling a .620 mark. Hayes has a vocation .676 OPS portion playing Gold Glove-caliber defense. He won that grant successful 2023 but hasn't progressed offensively successful the aforesaid manner. His OPS has dropped successful each of the past 3 seasons and is presently astatine a career-low .569.

Rogers, 34, appeared successful 40 games for the Reds this year, compiling a 2.45 ERA portion giving up conscionable 3 location runs successful 33 innings. He volition beryllium a escaped cause aft this season.

Stafura, 20, was with Class-A Daytona, hitting .262 with 4 location runs and 48 RBIs successful 88 games. He was a 2023 second-round prime by Cincinnati and was conscionable extracurricular their apical 10 prospects, according to ESPN's Kiley McDaniel.

Cincinnati is 3 games backmost successful the contention for the last National League chaotic paper spot entering Wednesday's games.