The Reds will activate Aaron Harang in time to pitch for Sunday's game vs. the Astros. Edinson Volquez, who was originally scheduled to pitch on Sunday, will now open up the series in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night, according to the team's website.

Harang, who is returning from a strained forearm injury, looked good in his only rehab start Monday night at Louisville and showed no ill effects after throwing on the side at Great Amercian Ballpark on Wednesday.

"Everybody says it's fine for a while to get a couple of days off," Harang said of his time on the DL. "But once you've got to come to the field every day, being around the guys and not being able to go out there and help, it eventually gets to you." 

It is expected to make room for Harang that the Reds will send Homer Bailey back down to the minors. Bailey is 0-6, 7.93 in eight starts, not the numbers the team was hoping for. Still, they are not much worse than Josh Fogg's. It doesn't make sense to me to send the kid down and keep Fogg in the rotation, but Bailey is getting booed as hard as he is hit and maybe it is best for him to go back to the minors once again.

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