The Reds will be down a starting pitcher for a bit, as the club placed left-hander Nick Lodolo on the injured list with a left groin strain on Wednesday. Lodolo has been stellar out of the Cincy rotation this season, going 3-2 with a 3.34 ERA over six starts while

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PHOENIX – Perky bats, double-digit hit totals and runs scoring. There appears to be a budding revival of the Reds offense. While they came up short the previous few days, it all came together during Tuesday's 6-2 victory over the Diamondbacks at Chase Field. For a Reds club that had

PHOENIX -- Even before he started in the big leagues for the Reds in left field on Tuesday, outfielder Jacob Hurtubise was already a rarity. Recalled from Triple-A Louisville on Monday, Hurtubise is only the second graduate of West Point to ever reach the big leagues. Pitcher Chris Rowley appeared

In an era that places a premium on platoon advantages, switch-hitters can be the most versatile members of a lineup -- even if they've become increasingly hard to find. Over the past four seasons, the number of switch-hitting batters in the Majors has slowly ticked down from 10.7 percent in

PHOENIX -- This was supposed to be a season where the Reds challenged for the postseason, but that goal seems to be drifting further from reach. Especially on nights like Monday's 6-5 walk-off loss to the D-backs, with wins being painfully rare of late, they desperately needed their closer to

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PHOENIX -- The struggling Reds barely had time to enjoy having TJ Friedl back contributing to their regular lineup and now they are faced with losing their center fielder again for several more weeks. Friedl went on the 10-day injured list on Monday with a broken left thumb. It's terrible

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Reds started off on the wrong foot right from the first pitch of Sunday's series finale at Oracle Park. Leadoff hitter TJ Friedl stepped into the box against Giants left-hander Kyle Harrison and immediately took a 90.6 mph four-seamer off his left thumb. Friedl doubled over

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The Statcast era of baseball research has reached another milestone: bat speed is live on Baseball Savant. You can check out this page for more thorough details on what bat speed entails and how it’s calculated. But in the meantime, we’re kicking things off by breaking down the best of

Break out the caps and gowns. It’s time for a whole bunch of graduations and an updated Top 100 Prospects list. Young players who began the 2024 season on a Major League Opening Day roster with zero MLB service time exhausted their prospect status Sunday by way of the 45-day

SAN FRANCISCO -- Nick Lodolo felt like he was a pitch away from getting out of the first inning of Saturday's 5-1 loss to the Giants. With two outs in the opening frame, the Reds southpaw had given up two singles and a walk to load the bases for Giants

Travis Bazzana keeps rewriting the Oregon State record books. MLB Pipeline's No. 2 Draft prospect already claimed the program’s all-time and single-season home run records this season. Now he has set another major school mark. Bazzana became OSU’s all-time hits leader on Sunday, setting the school record with a run-scoring

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mired in an eight-game skid and a team-wide slump at the plate, the Reds badly needed a jolt of energy as they headed on the road to kick off a three-city, 10-game West Coast road trip. Stuart Fairchild may have given his team just what the doctor

CINCINNATI -- Poor baserunning and a "sluggish" starting pitcher. This was part of the recipe that doomed the Reds to their eighth consecutive defeat in Thursday's 5-4 loss to the Diamondbacks at Great American Ball Park. Cincinnati hadn't been swept in a homestand of at least six games since June

The top prospect in the 2024 Draft has solidified his status as the premier power in college baseball's bat-ball coefficient of restitution era. Georgia slugger Charlie Condon launched his 34th home run of the season in Thursday's 14-10 win over South Carolina, which marked the highest single-season total since the

CINCINNATI -- One run isn't a commanding advantage, but the Reds had a lead for the first time in a full week -- or 43 innings -- during the second inning on Wednesday vs. the Diamondbacks. But it proved to be ever-so fleeting. Graham Ashcraft couldn't hold on to it

CINCINNATI -- It turns out that Christian Encarnacion-Strand has a fractured hand after all. The Reds first baseman was placed on the 10-day injured list on Wednesday and the club brought back veteran first baseman Mike Ford on a one-year, $1.3 million contract to take his place. Encarnacion-Strand was hit

This story was excerpted from Mark Sheldon’s Reds Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CINCINNATI -- Tuesday marked Reds starting pitcher Frankie Montas’ return from the injured list. He immediately became part of the collateral damage created by

CINCINNATI -- When TJ Friedl was activated from the injured list on Tuesday, it happened when the Reds needed their center fielder and leadoff hitter the most. The Reds have struggled because their sagging offense hasn't produced. As much as they wanted Friedl back from a fractured right wrist, they