Complex sentence: He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the twelfth round of the 1988 Major League Baseball Draft, and went 9-21 with a 2.80 earned run average and 72 saves over four seasons in their farm system to earn a call to Cincinnati in August.
Split into simpler sentences: He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the twelfth round of the 1988 Major League Baseball Draft. He went 9-21 with a 2.80 earned run average and 72 saves over four seasons in their farm system to earn a call to Cincinnati in August.