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On Elly De La Cruz and switch-hitting

If anyone stepped into the Major League Baseball scene for the first time and hit just .184/.231/.263 with 49 strikeouts in 122 PA, you’d have some initial concerns. Maybe they’re just getting their feet wet. Maybe they’re still young enough to figure it out. It’s rough out there at first, after all. If they backed […]

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Rhett Lowder starts again for Peoria in Arizona Fall League play

Saturday afternoon will see Cincinnati Reds starter Rhett Lowder return to the mound for the Peoria Javelinas in Arizona Fall League play, this time at home at the Peoria Sports Complex opposite the Salt River Rafters. It will be familiar territory for Lowder, who fired a pair of scoreless innings against the very same Rafters […]

Who gets the next contract extension from the Cincinnati Reds?

Barring a major trade this offseason, the 2026 season will mark the fifth regular season in which Spencer Steer has appeared in a Cincinnati Reds uniform. That’s right, when the Reds front office once again began to blow up the roster back in 2022, it was the deal shipping out Tyler Mahle that brought in […]

Spencer Steer, Ke’Bryan Hayes named Gold Glove Award finalists

The Cincinnati Reds have not had a player win a Gold Glove Award since the 2020 season, and haven’t had a player win a Gold Glove Award in a full season since back in 2017. Both of those, you’ll recall, were earned by catcher Tucker Barnhart, and the Reds haven’t had a non-catcher take home […]

Spencer Steer is the linchpin of the Cincinnati Reds offseason strategy

Spencer Steer is fresh off his second consecutive season of below-par offensive production. His OPS+ dipped again, down from 96 in 2024 to just 94 in 2025, and since the beginning of the 2024 season he’s hit just .231/.316/.406 in 1224 PA – a 95 OPS+ valued at a grand total of 2.0 bWAR (and […]

Cincinnati Reds links – Lowder shines, Pagan eyes reunion

Shortly after one of the Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, or (gasp) Los Angeles Dodgers wins this year’s World Series, Emilio Pagan will once again find himself a free agent. Signed to a two-year, $16 million deal prior to the start of the 2024 season, Pagan became the closer of the Cincinnati Reds […]

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Rhett Lowder set for Arizona Fall League debut on Friday

Rhett Lowder navigated 30.2 IP of big league ball expertly at the tail end of the 2024 regular season, his first as a professional after the Cincinnati Reds used the #7 overall pick to select him out of Wake Forest in the 2023 MLB Draft. He pitched through just about every level of the minors […]

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Breaking down Nick Krall’s comments on the upcoming Reds offseason

Cincinnati Reds president of baseball operations Nick Krall spoke to the media on Monday afternoon, reflecting briefly on the team’s crash out of the Wild Card round of the 2025 playoffs before quickly turning the page to the 2026 season. Though the team finished just 83-79 in the regular season, didn’t even secure an above […]

Projected arbitration salaries for the 2026 Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds currently have 14 players on their roster who’ll be arbitration eligible heading into the 2026 regular season. That means the Reds have 14 players currently rostered who’ll be picking up raises over what they made during the 2025 season, since that’s precisely how the arbitration system works. The fine folks at MLB […]

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