Gausman claimed by the Reds per Passan

[nsacpi]

I agree—but I do wonder if he was resistant to such a move, or if there were any other mitigating factors of that nature.

we can only speculate at this point

[jpx7]

we can only speculate at this point

Given Anthopoulos’ comments, and some parsimonious reasoning, I’m going to assume roster flexibility really is the predominating factor (after, obviously, Gausman’s results staying terrible and not converging to his league-average inputs).