AAAA Affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds
Last season saw Chase Burns go from ‘highly talented high draft pick who’d never thrown a pro pitch’ to perhaps the game’s top rated pitching prospect prior to making his big league debut with the Cincinnati Reds in late June. Meanwhile, Tyson Lewis hit balls so damn hard in Arizona in his first action as […]
14 days ago | 1 read
Voting for the final spot in this year’s Community Prospect Rankings was neck and neck, with both Ricky Cabrera and Mason Neville, at times, leading the voting. But when the clock expired at the arbitrary time that I enforced, it was Cabrera who was six votes ahead for spot #20 on the list. A quick […]
14 days ago | 1 read
Scott Barlow and Brent Suter combined to throw some 136.0 IP for the Cincinnati Reds last season, and both have since moved on and signed elsewhere in free agency this offseason. Nick Martinez, now a member of the Tampa Bay Rays, chipped in with 20.2 IP of work as a reliever in a swingman role, […]
15 days ago | 2 reads
Sheng-En Lin claimed the #19 spot in this year’s Community Prospect Rankings, doing so after finally getting shifted to a pitch-only player after having previously been considered a two-way prospect. The results were quite good on the mound as he reached Class-A Daytona, and the hope now is that as he focuses solely on the […]
16 days ago | 1 read
It’s hard to process just how complicated it must be to be a two-way professional baseball player. There’s a reason, after all, while the list of those who have successfully pulled it off in the modern age consists of Shohei Ohtani and literally nobody else. So, when you look at what Sheng-En Lin pulled off […]
17 days ago | 0 reads
Tyler Callihan enters camp in Goodyear looking to regain a spot on the active roster of the Cincinnati Reds after a devastating broken arm ended his 2025 season prematurely. Callihan also checks in as the #18 prospect in this year’s Community Prospect Rankings thanks to his gap power, good patience at the plate, and ability […]
18 days ago | 0 reads
If someone told you right now that over the first four full years of Sal Stewart’s career he would hit .274/.359/.432 and average 20 HR a season, would you take it? You’d probably take it! The first four years of Nathaniel Lowe’s career saw him do exactly that, as from 2021 through 2024 he was […]
19 days ago | 0 reads
As ridiculous question-themed title prompts go, this one might take the cake. It’s not without reference, however, as just last summer ESPN’s Jeff Passan referenced the legendary pixie dust of Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona as a means for the Reds to surge forward in the standings, something Tito did while up north in Cleveland […]
19 days ago | 0 reads
Somewhat lost in the news circus today was that Phil Castellini, son of majority Cincinnati Reds owner Bob Castellini, was officially approved to succeed his father as controlling owner of the club. Charlie Goldsmith, formerly of The Enquirer (and now of his Charlie’s Chalkboard newsletter) relayed the news on Twitter earlier Thursday, noting that the […]
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Tyler Callihan was playing the best baseball of his career in early 2025. After reaching AAA Louisville for a cameo at the end of 2024 (and raking during it), he began 2025 at the highest level of the minors and picked up right where he’d left off. He mashed to the tune of .303/.410/.528 across […]
20 days ago | 0 reads
The Cincinnati Reds officially reunited with Eugenio Suárez last week, adding the proven slugger to the lineup that the entire baseball world knew they needed. Whether or not he’ll play the position he’s played almost every day for the last ten years remains to be seen, but his bat will be in the lineup in […]
20 days ago | 0 reads
Nick Martinez was a starting pitcher for the 2025 Cincinnati Reds right up until he wasn’t. He’d start on Tuesday. He’d then start on Friday. Then, he’d take two weeks off and be a reliever every other day, sometimes for two, three innings at a time. Martinez, who finalized a one-year deal with the Tampa […]
21 days ago | 1 read
If you are wholly unfamiliar with how Major League Baseball arbitration cases work, this headline could sound somewhat ominous. The reality, though, is that MLB’s arb system is something of a binary system if salaries for eligible players are not hammered out and finalized by a certain date, and an independent arbiter simply gets to […]
21 days ago | 0 reads
Julian Aguiar checked in at #17 in this year’s Community Prospect Rankings thanks to the most recent round of voting. The big right-hander is poised to reclaim a spot with the big league Reds at some point in 2026, and my best hope is that he does so well enough – and for long enough […]
22 days ago | 1 read
The Cincinnati Reds have aged out of their rebuild. This club that they put together from the draft, international signings, and prospects brought in via trade first assembled when they were mostly young, mostly inexperienced players breaking into the big leagues for the first time. That’s not at all so anymore. Spencer Steer is now […]
22 days ago | 2 reads
It’s perfectly OK if the most recent thing you remember about Julian Aguiar’s career advancement as a professional baseball pitcher was getting shelled for 7 ER by the Atlanta Braves in late September of 2024. That is, after all, the last time he threw a pitch in an actual professional game, after all. Then 23, […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
Technically speaking, Cincinnati Reds pitchers and catchers are not slated to officially have their first workout of spring training camp in Goodyear, Arizona until Wednesday, February 11th. Today is Monday, February 9th, however, and that’s the day pitchers and catchers were set to ‘report’ for the first time – and we’ve already got pitchers going […]
23 days ago | 1 read
Behind the dish the Cincinnati Reds boast both Tyler Stephenson and Jose Trevino for the 2026 season, a quality combination of experience, defense, and even some timely offense sprinkled in. The starting rotation that will chuck baseballs their way is also mostly set, the only unknown precisely how the depth at its back-end gets shuffled […]
23 days ago | 0 reads
Aaron Watson has yet to throw a competitive pitch as a professional, but his big frame and big potential was good enough for the Cincinnati Reds to use their 2nd round pick in the 2025 MLB Draft to select him out of high school in Florida – and it was good enough to land him […]
24 days ago | 3 reads
Sluggin’ infielder slash designated hitter Eugenio Suárez belted 49 homers between time spent with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners in 2025. He blasted 49 homers for the Cincinnati Reds back in 2019, too, a year when everyone was seemingly blastin’ dingers at a record clip. He’s done it when everyone was doing it, and […]
26 days ago | 0 reads
The Cincinnati Reds jumped at the chance to draft 6’5” right-hander Aaron Watson in the 2nd round of the 2025 MLB Draft, and threw him an over-slot $2.7 million signing bonus to persuade him to eschew his commitment to the University of Florida and turn pro for good. Watson, whom you just voted as the […]
26 days ago | 0 reads
Current Cincinnati Reds hitting coach Chris Valaika hit a mediocre .235/.271/.344 for the 2009 Louisville Bats, doing so while primarily playing shortstop. He was flanked on that roster by the likes of Norris Hopper, Danny Dorn, Corky Miller, and Drew Stubbs, with young bucks like Todd Frazier and even Jay Bruce sprinkling in some of […]
27 days ago | 3 reads
Carlos Jorge finally saw his name on the board as the #15 prospect in this year’s Community Prospect Rankings. Suddenly I don’t know what to do with myself since I’ve been voting for him since he first joined the ballot, but I suppose I’ll begin figuring out that process right now. Per usual, you can […]
27 days ago | 4 reads
It’s easy to forget, but Elly De La Cruz made 29 starts (and appeared in 32 overall games) as the 3B of the Cincinnati Reds back in his first year in the big leagues in 2023. That was in deference to Matt McLain, current 2B and resident backup SS, who made 52 starts at short […]
27 days ago | 0 reads
With the signing of Eugenio Suarez, the roster of the Cincinnati Reds seems just about wrapped up with spring training in Goodyear, Arizona looming just over one week away. There may still be a utility glove added, there could be a reliever tucked into the back of the roster somehow, but the bulk of what […]
28 days ago | 1 read