The Reds are content to use Negron as their backup to Zack Cozart at shortstop, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

The Reds are content to use Negron as their backup to Zack Cozart at shortstop, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

Analysis:

This dampens the chances that Ivan DeJesus Jr. or Irving Falu makes the team, and the Reds have already sent down Eugenio Suarez. Negron could get a handful of starts at short in place of Cozart if Cozart gets off to a similarly bad beginning to the season as he did last year.