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Cam Collier’s 2025 season could not have begun in more frustrating fashion. In just the first week of March, he tore the UCL in his left thumb while tagging out a baserunner in Cactus League play in Arizona during spring training, an injury that required surgery and over a month of rehab. MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
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. We are all acutely aware of how risk-averse the Cincinnati Reds are, and have been for […]
4 months ago | 1 read
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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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 […]
4 months ago | 5 reads
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 […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
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 […]
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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 […]
4 months ago | 15 reads
League Championship baseball dominates the sports landscape this fine Monday, as it’s definitely the only major professional sport in North America with two feature games on the docket. Trust me! The Seattle Mariners will look to take a commanding 2-0 series lead over the Toronto Blue Jays first, as those two clubs are set to […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
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 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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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 […]
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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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