Maholm has been told that he is now competing for a spot in the Reds' bullpen, the Cincinnati Enquirer's John Fay reports. This removes him from the running for one of the team's final rotation spots, as those will now belong to Raisel Iglesias and Jason Marquis until Homer Bailey (forearm) is ready to reclaim a spot. Maholm is not the kind of pitcher who profiles as a potentially dominant reliever, so this significantly deflates any potential fantasy value he may have offered when he was still in the hunt for a rotation spot.