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The leaves may be continuing to change and temperatures starting to drop, but the hitters are only getting hotter in the Arizona Fall League. Twenty-nine homers were hit by 22 players during the third week of play in the desert. Dozens of bats recorded multihit showings, with three of them

CINCINNATI -- Todd Benzinger, a Greater Cincinnati native who will forever be solidified in the memories of Reds fans for being the player who caught the final out that secured the 1990 World Series, died on Wednesday. Benzinger, whose passing was announced by the Reds on Thursday, was 63 years

CINCINNATI -- It has been several years since the Reds faced a winter with a vacancy at their primary catcher position without a homegrown player ready to fill it. Tyler Stephenson held it down over the past five seasons, and before that, the spot belonged to Tucker Barnhart. Preceding Barnhart

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CINCINNATI -- The Reds made their first offseason signing of a player to avoid arbitration on Thursday by agreeing to terms with infielder/outfielder Oswaldo Cabrera on a one-year contract. Cabrera will earn a base salary of $1 million and can earn an additional $200,000 in performance bonuses based on plate

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates. As a reminder, players can remain on the 60-day IL through the World Series, after which teams must account for those players on their 40-man roster.

The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is underway, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout October and November as AFL matchups are once again streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. All but five games of the

CINCINNATI -- Héctor Rodríguez was on a hitting tear for Triple-A Louisville when the Reds gave the 22-year-old right fielder his first Major League promotion on Aug. 4. Rodríguez's first couple of weeks saw extremely lean production and the lefty hitter's confidence dried up quickly. Over his first 12 games

You can only make one first impression. Organizations handle recent Draft picks in all sorts of ways. Sometimes, they’ll hold them back for lighter work at the Spring Training complex, work that continues into fall instructs or bridge-league play. Sometimes, they’ll push them out to an affiliate to get their

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Carter Graham was a two-time first-team All-Pac-12 selection during his tenure at Stanford, earning second and third team All-American honors from multiple outlets. But despite that, the former two-sport athlete -- who also excelled on the basketball court -- admitted that he didn’t have much of an

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The most important thing for prospects is development: learning how to be a professional, acquiring new skills, sharpening tools or pitches. There often can be bumps in the road along the path to the big leagues, and it's important to note that performance and production in the moment isn't necessarily

CINCINNATI — As the Reds’ baseball operations department looks to upgrade an offense that slogged and underperformed throughout 2026, they already have two hitters with the highest of ceilings in Elly De La Cruz and Sal Stewart. Now president Nick Krall and general manager Brad Meador know they must raise

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- If things had gone according to plan, Luke Holman would have been in Cincinnati long ago. He was, after all, a 2024 Competitive Balance Round B pick coming off an outstanding season at Louisiana State, a Top 50 prospect on MLB Pipeline’s Draft rankings that July. There

The Arizona Fall League presents an opportunity for players who missed significant time due to injury to get more reps. It also provides a chance for teams to look at some of their prospects for six more weeks before deciding whether to add them to their 40-man roster. Organizations have

Last week, MLB Pipeline revealed its selections for Minor League Hitting Prospect of the Year and Minor League Pitching Prospect of the Year during the 2026 MiLB Awards Show on MLB Network. Brewers corner infielder Andrew Fischer won hitting honors after swatting 48 homers, the most in the Minors since

Rookies -- and big names at that -- made their impacts felt in 2026. Eighteen of the first 25 players ranked on MLB Pipeline's preseason Top 100 Prospects list appeared in the big leagues, and many of them had seasons worthy of hardware. There were eye-catching debuts, massive extensions, All-Star

CINCINNATI — Speaking with reporters on Thursday for the first time since becoming the Reds' control person, president and CEO Phil Castellini voiced support for the club's baseball operations leaders in trying to bring a postseason contender back to Cincinnati after a disappointing 2026 season. “My coming here today is

The Minor League playoffs have been completed. There are only a handful of players with prospect eligibility remaining left in the Major League postseason, and there will be fewer with each passing round. Time for us in prospectdom to go into offseason mode? Not so fast, friends. The Arizona Fall

CINCINNATI — The Reds announced on Thursday that Derek Johnson would not return as their pitching coach for the 2027 season. Johnson took a personal leave of absence from the club in June and did not resume his duties for the remainder of the 2026 season. Assistant pitching coach Matt

You always want to finish strong. That's exactly what these players did in the final month of the 2026 regular season. Here are both leagues' monthly award winners for September.

Action in the Arizona Fall League kicked off over the weekend with a full slate of games, with big names already turning heads. While a lot of attention is understandably given to the high-profile prospects -- the late additions of Sebastian Walcott, Aidan Miller and Angeibel Gomez created some fun