AAAA Affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds
It was January of 2019 when the Cincinnati Reds sent prospect Shed Long and a Competitive Balance pick to the New York Yankees to acquire right-hander Sonny Gray, the former Oakland A’s ace and 2015 All Star. He had struggled mightily since landing in the Bronx, yet Cincinnati pitching guru Derek Johnson – who had […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers won a World Series title in the abbreviated 2020 season, doing so with the likes of Clayton Kershaw, Cody Bellinger, Walker Buehler, Justin Turner, Kenley Jansen, and Corey Seager as key parts of their core. Every last one of those players is now gone, with all but Kershaw having skipped town […]
The Cincinnati Reds got a rock solid start by Andrew Abbott in his first career start on Opening Day. The left-handed All Star fired 6.0 IP of scoreless ball, but the problem was that the Boston Red Sox similarly had an All Star lefty on the mound in Garrett Crochet. Crochet kept Cincinnati just as […]
Andrew Abbott will take the mound at Great American Ball Park and chuck the first pitch of the 2026 regular season for the Cincinnati Reds today. He’ll do so with budding Boston Red Sox superstar Roman Anthony in the box against him, as that’s who will lead off for Cincinnati’s opposition today. First pitch is […]
Opening Day in Cincinnati has finally arrived! After a long winter where we were left to ponder whether the Cincinnati Reds, who actually snuck into the playoffs for a minute in 2025, were going to take a giant leap forward in 2026 as their roster entered a fourth full year together post-rebuild. Today, we get […]
When was the last time the Cincinnati Reds rolled into a season on such an upswing? They made the playoffs last year. Even after they did that, they didn’t immediately lose half their roster to free agency, or have their minuscule budget force them to trade away key stars. They’ve got a Hall of Fame […]
Garrett Crochet came to the Boston Red Sox from the Chicago White Sox in a move that surely made the southsiders groan and throw everything within reach as far as possible. All Crochet did once settling in Beantown was post a 6.3 bWAR season that featured and AL-best 205.1 IP and MLB-best 255 Ks, efforts […]
We don’t yet know when, or if Jose Franco will take the mound for the Cincinnati Reds, but we do now know he’s going to have a very good opportunity to do so within the next two weeks. With Opening Day set for tomorrow – Thursday, March 26th – and with Nick Lodolo needing a […]
Up the river and around the bend, past Huntington and Parkersburg, Wheeling and Steubenville, the Pittsburgh Pirates finally have a little rumble in their bellies. Cincinnati’s NL Central rivals have Paul Skenes, ace extraordinaire, the reigning Cy Young Award winner in the National League. They have Konnor Griffin on the cusp of his debut, the […]
The good news is that Cincinnati Reds lefty Nick Lodolo isn’t really injured, per se. He’s once again dealing with a blister issue on his left (throwing) hand, one that popped up in his final appearance of Cactus League action down in Arizona during a record-touching heat wave. Apparently, though, it’s bad enough that they […]
Just when you thought Joey Votto had retired to a quiet beach somewhere, content to read Verne and Hiaasen and learn four new languages, he has popped back up on the radar of the Cincinnati Reds once again. In typical Votto fashion, he did so with brilliant, understated style. According to MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon, he […]
The 2026 Major League Baseball season will reportedly begin tomorrow, March 25th, when the San Francisco Giants take on the New York Yankees in the hallowed grounds of the Bronx. (We all know the season doesn’t really begin until the next day when the Cincinnati Reds play host to the Boston Red Sox at Great […]
The Cincinnati Reds got bogus news early in spring camp when Hunter Greene needed elbow surgery to remove bone spurs, setting back their ace until the All Star break in July. Aside from that doozy, though, things had mostly been OK on the injury front (aside from Caleb Ferguson’s oblique issue). As the heat ramped […]
Per MLB.com’s own glossary, xwOBA is described as a metric “formulated using exit velocity, launch angle and, on certain types of batted balls, Sprint Speed.” “xwOBA is more indicative of a player’s skill than regular wOBA, as xwOBA removes defense from the equation.” It’s an expected stat, meaning that it’s based more on process than […]
Cincinnati Reds lefty starter Nick Lodolo has repeatedly dealt with blister issues on his left index finger, and left index finger blisters are pretty problematic when you are a lefty starter. On Sunday in his final start of Cactus League play before Thursday’s Opening Day in Cincinnati, Lodolo was forced to exit after facing only […]
The Cincinnati Reds made official on Saturday what we’d anticipated regarding their roster, officially informing non-roster invitee Nathaniel Lowe that he would make the Opening Day roster. Cincinnati also opted to include Sam Moll, who is out of options, while using the existing minor league options on spring standouts JJ Bleday, Rece Hinds, and Zach […]
As is always the case during the six-plus weeks between the day pitchers and catchers report and the actual Opening Day of the regular season, injuries have begun to dictate the precise direction the roster of the Cincinnati Reds will go. Hunter Greene, resident ace, will be out until about the All Star break after […]
Fresh off a World Baseball Classic performance that saw him plate the winning run for Team Venezuela in the championship game, Eugenio Suárez is back in camp with the Cincinnati Reds in Arizona. On Friday evening, he’ll return to Cincinnati’s lineup for their road game against the Chicago Cubs over in Mesa. Brandon Williamson will […]
The 2025 Cincinnati Reds won more games than they lost, finished 3rd in the National League Central, and still somehow found a way to sneak into the expanded playoff system (for a minute). Clearly, Nick Krall and the rest of the front office think they’re on to something, as the club went out and signed […]
Thursday night the Cincinnati Reds will send the best and brightest pieces of their farm system to Scottsdale to take on the best and brightest prospects from the system of the San Francisco Giants, the 2026 edition of the Spring Breakout Game. Cincinnati won’t be sending the likes of Rhett Lowder or Sal Stewart, I […]
Slugger Eugenio Suárez is fresh off a season that saw him thwack 49 home runs and be valued at 3.8 fWAR (3.6 bWAR). He reached free agency at season’s end and signed a one-year deal to return to the Cincinnati Reds, the club that traded for him prior to the 2015 season – and the […]
The knowns about the Cincinnati Reds pitching staff for next week’s Opening Day game against the Boston Red Sox are, for now, the following: Based on contracts and easy assumptions, each of Emilio Pagan, Tony Santillan, Graham Ashcraft, Pierce Johnson, and Brock Burke are locks to form the bulk of the bullpen on Opening Day, […]
The Cincinnati Reds are in the middle of making their final roster decisions in the run-up to Opening Day, so it’s little surprise they’ve packed this portion of their spring schedule with as many games as possible. That includes Tuesday, which will see Cincinnati send Chase Burns & Co. on the road to Tempe to […]
There was a time when I raged, raged against using all caps in headlines. That time is not now. The Cincinnati Reds are going to play the Cleveland Guardians tonight – Thursday, March 17th – under the lights at Goodyear Stadium, and THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT ON TELEVISION THAT YOU CAN WATCH WITH […]
If you try hard to remember, you’ll actually recall that the Cincinnati Reds spent a good chunk of the 2025 regular season carrying six starting pitchers – at minimum – on their active roster. Such was the luxury of having Nick Martinez around all year, his versatility the linchpin in making sure the rest of […]