AAAA Affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds
Since taking over as the pitching coach/guru/director for the Cincinnati Reds, the club has consistently established itself as a pitching-first organization that’s earned quite the bit of respect around the league. They’ve drafted well in that time, too. Adding the likes of Hunter Greene, Nick Lodolo, Andrew Abbott, Rhett Lowder, Chase Burns, Tony Santillan, Graham […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
The run-around given to the media members covering the Cincinnati Reds from the front office early this offseason has pretty much dictate that the 2026 payroll is going to be just about the same as it was in 2025. That payroll changed a lot during the course of the year – they added Miguel Andujar, […]
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Cincinnati Reds lefty Andrew Abbott averaged 92.8 mph with his fastball during his All Star campaign in 2025, a mark that ranked him in just the 26th percentile according to MLB’s Statcast. He also generated grounders just 32.9% of the time, a mark that ranked in just the 9th percentile. I point out his weaknesses […]
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Tejay Antone rocketed on to the scene with the Cincinnati Reds back in the shortened 2020 season, his repertoire pairing perfectly with the ‘Spincinnati’ revolution. Across 36 appearances in 2020-2021, he fired 69.0 IP and allowed just 19 ER (2.48 ERA), putting up a ridiculous 87/29 K/BB and 0.96 WHIP while being a multi-inning weapon […]
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As the Cincinnati Reds continue to trim the margins of their roster ahead of both administrative needs and the chance to acquire other players for 2026, Reiver Sanmartin will officially have a new club going forward. Sanmartin, a 29 year old lefty, was claimed by the San Francisco Giants on Thursday afternoon. Alex Pavlovic of […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
The Cincinnati Reds would have been on the hook for some $21.5 million for the 2026 season should they (and the player with a mutual option) have chosen to keep around each of outfielder Austin Hays, lefty reliever Brent Suter, and workhorse righty Scott Barlow. That simply was never going to happen. Cincinnati’s front office […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
Though right-hander Keegan Thompson spent the entirety of the 2025 season at the AAA level within the Chicago Cubs organization, the Cincinnati Reds signed him to a major league deal earlier on Tuesday. Thompson, 30, does have ample big league experience, however. A former 33rd round pick of the Detroit Tigers and later a 3rd […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
There are two things that are pretty paramount for making a sports team something you’ll go out of your way to watch, and the first is obvious: You’ve got to win games. Winning is enjoyable. It’s satisfying. It’s engaging to see the team whose logo you wear on your hat score more points before the […]
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Defense has never really been the calling card for the Cincinnati Reds, at least not of late. This is the same franchise with the same owner and a lot of the same members of the front office who doled out big money deals to bring in Nick Castellanos for a corner outfield spot and Mike […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
The season is over, the tee-times are booked, and the players who are the fuel and backbone of Major League Baseball are beginning their rest after the grueling eight-ish months of the daily grind. It also flirted with 32 degrees where I am this morning, and the hot stove season has officially begun. The Cincinnati […]
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It is a perfectly fine and normal reaction this morning to have woken up and proclaimed that the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series last night. In a perfect world, they’d have. In the real world, the pretty much kind of did, for a bit, and that’s enough for most of us. That the […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
The Cincinnati Reds made make or break roster decisions with a pair of veterans over the past week, choosing to outright both right-hander Ian Gibaut and infielder/outfielder Santiago Espinal off the 40-man roster and assign them to AAA Louisville. Both Gibaut and Espinal, though, have enough service time as veterans to control their own destinies […]
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Over the final 54 games in which he played during the 2024 season, Santiago Espinal hit .311/.361/.446 with 55 hits for the Cincinnati Reds. The utility infielder, never a huge source of offense, chipped in enough to be counted on in 2025 as a pretty valuable depth piece on the roster. At least, that was […]
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The salary structure and team control matrix for Major League clubs is complicated and convoluted, but there are at least a couple of tenets to it that generally hold. Clubs get six years of team control over players, and the players typically operate at or around league-minimum salaries for the first three of those years […]
3 months ago | 1 read
It’s still tough to truly wrap your head around the season that Tyler Stephenson just had for the Cincinnati Reds, as a dive into the numbers sends you the four corners of the planet. His strikeout rate spiked over 11% to a career worst 33.9%, just one year removed from it being a career best […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Every year as a new season dawns, I do my best to come up with spur of the moment, lightly researched predictions for the upcoming season. I am not living completely under a rock, however, so these do tend to be hunches that accumulate over months of casual offseason observance of happenings around the league, […]
3 months ago | 1 read
After reaching base a staggering nine times during last night’s epic 18 inning Game 3, Shohei Ohtani will toe the rubber for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 tonight at Dodger Stadium (while also leading off, because of course). The Toronto Blue Jays will look to claw their way back into a level series […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Reds fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. It’s somewhat hard to believe, but the Cincinnati Reds drafted catcher Tyler Stephenson in the 1st […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
The World Series is tied at a game apiece between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays, as the former headed north to Canada and took a game against the latter in front of a raucous crowd at the Rogers Centre. Now, both teams descend upon Dodger Stadium with LA carrying both the momentum […]
3 months ago | 1 read
FanGraphs’ David Laurila has been in the Phoenix area lately catching as many Arizona Fall League games as he can, as well as catching up with as many participants in the annual fall showcase, too. He had a chance to speak with top Cincinnati Reds pitching prospect Rhett Lowder of the Peoria Javelinas, and Rhett […]
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Cincinnati Reds righty Rhett Lowder will take the mound again on Saturday in Arizona Fall League action, this time against the Glendale Desert Dogs at Camelback Ranch. He’s appeared twice so far in AFL play, but he’s only faced the Salt River Rafters, making this his first foray into some new competition. Lowder, though, will […]
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Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell will take the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series where he’ll be opposed by a guy who began the year pitching for the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Class-A Florida State League. The rise of Trey Yesavage has been meteoric […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
It wasn’t that the move the Cincinnati Reds made to pick up Gavin Lux last year was a bad idea. Cincinnati’s offense needed another bat, needed one not making a ton of money, and we all know their addiction to adding versatility to their lineup. It’s just that when the deal was made, we all […]
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Even if it didn’t make a ton of sense at the time – and, to many, still doesn’t – it was clear as day why the Cincinnati Reds made the trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates at the 2025 trade deadline to acquire Ke’Bryan Hayes. He is, and has been, the single best defensive 3B in […]
3 months ago | 0 reads
Every year as a new season dawns, I do my best to come up with spur of the moment, lightly researched predictions for the upcoming season. I am not living completely under a rock, however, so these do tend to be hunches that accumulate over months of casual offseason observance of happenings around the league, […]
3 months ago | 1 read