Riley O'Brien #61

Graduated from Shoreline (WA) High School, the same school attended by Blake Snell...was drafted out of the College of Idaho, where he played two seasons after transferring from Everett (WA) Community College...his grandfather, Johnny O’Brien, played baseball and, despite his 5-foot-9 stature, basketball at Seattle University...became the first college player to score 1,000 points in a season and led Seattle U to a legendary victory over the Harlem Globetrotters...Johnny was drafted by the NBA’s Milwaukee Hawks but chose baseball and played six years with the Pirates, Cardinals and Milwaukee Braves as both a middle infielder and pitcher...follow on Twitter @RileyyOBrienn and on Instagram @RileyyObrien.

2022

Spent the majority of the season with Triple-A Tacoma, going 1-3 with a 7.12 ERA (29 ER, 36.2 IP) with 29 walks and 43 strikeouts in 32 appearances (1 start)...made one appearance with Seattle, tossing 1.0 scoreless inning May 7 vs. Tampa Bay...began the season in the Reds organization...acquired by the Mariners from the Reds in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations April 17, 2022.

2021

Spent almost all of the season at Louisville, but during his three days on the Reds’ roster in the schedule’s final week made his only Major League appearance...Started the 7-1 loss on 9/28 at WSox...first strikeout victim was Eloy Jiménez, his fifth batter...in 1.1 innings allowed two hits, a solo HR to Luis Robert in the first inning and a solo HR to Yoán Moncada in the second...Became the ninth of nine Reds players to make Major League debuts in 2021 (2B Jonathan India, RHP Ryan Hendrix, RHP Vladimir Gutierrez, RHP Tony Santillan, IF Alejo Lopez, OF TJ Friedl, RHP Dauri Moreta, LHP Reiver Sanmartin)...The previous day, LHP Reiver Sanmartin made his first career appearance in a 13-1 win vs Pit...Sanmartin and O’Brien became only the fourth set of Reds starting pitchers since 1900 to make Major League debuts in consecutive games, joining RHP Rookie Davis & LHP Amir Garrett in 2017 (4/6 vs Phi, 4/7 at StL), Eddie Erautt & Bud Lively in 1947 (4/16, 4/17) and Martin Glendon & Bob Ewing in 1902 (4/18, 4/19)...Became the last of the 55 players, two shy of the 2003 club record, and the last of the 17 rookies to appear in a game for the Reds in 2021...At Louisville went 7-7, 4.55 in 22 starts and one relief appearance...was his first action above Class AA...Established professional single-season career highs in starts, innings pitched, strikeouts, batters faced and pitches thrown...Ranked among the Triple-A East pitching leaders in ERA (7th), strikeouts (4th), starts (T5th), innings pitched (8th), batting average against (3rd, .222) and WHIP (7th, 1.31)...During spring training didn’t allow a hit in 3 scoreless relief apps during “A” games (2.1ip, 1bb, 5k)...wore #84...Entered the season rated by Baseball America the 25th-best prospect in the organization.

2020

On 8/28 was acquired from the Rays for LHP Cody Reed...was assigned to the alternate training site, where he spent the rest of the regular season...Was not on the Reds' 40-player Postseason travel roster...On 11/20 was added to the 40-man roster, along with RHP Vladimir Gutierrez and RHP Jared Solomon.