Hard-throwing Reds prospect Chase Burns is one step closer to the big leagues. Burns, 22, Cincinnati's first-round Draft pick last season and the team's current No. 1 prospect, is being promoted to Double-A Chattanooga. He is scheduled to make his first start on Saturday, sources tell MLB.com. The team has

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With the Minor League season opening this week, here's where the Reds’ Top 30 Prospects are projected to start:

1. Chase Burns (MLB No. 25), RHP -- Dayton (High-A)
2. Rhett Lowder (MLB No. 34), RHP -- Cincinnati (MLB) -- injured list (elbow)
3. Sal Stewart (MLB No. 82), 2B/3B

GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Call it the Tito effect.

PHOENIX -- Sal Stewart was one fired-up Reds prospect. On Sunday in the first inning during the organization's 9-7 Spring Breakout win over Brewers prospects, Stewart lifted a 2-2 pitch that sailed over the center fielder's head to the wall. Already not known as a speedster, he stumbled running between

GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Reds top prospect Chase Burns will highlight a cavalcade of the organization's best up-and-coming players that are on the roster for the 2025 edition of Spring Breakout. Cincinnati will have 10 of its top 12 prospects and four of its five prospects ranked in the top 100

Ding, ding, who’s ready for Round 2? Last year’s inaugural edition of Spring Breakout gave fans early looks at Paul Skenes, Jackson Chourio, Pete Crow-Armstrong, James Wood, Jackson Holliday, Ceddanne Rafaela and many other young stars who graduated off prospect lists in 2024. Not only does it serve as a

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- One of the Reds’ top prospects, first baseman Cam Collier, will begin his 2025 season on the injured list because he needs left thumb surgery. Collier, who is ranked by MLB Pipeline as Cincinnati's No. 4 prospect and No. 90 overall, tore the ulnar collateral ligament in

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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- The Reds trimmed their roster for the first time this spring on Wednesday, reassigning seven players to Minor League camp. The list included MLB Pipeline Top 100 prospects Chase Burns (No. 26), Cam Collier (No. 90) and Edwin Arroyo (No. 91). The club is now down to

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Roki Sasaki’s debut may have grabbed most of the headlines Tuesday night, but for Chase Petty, it was a game he’s unlikely to forget anytime soon. The Reds’ No. 6 prospect, Petty made his first career spring start in a big league game, having only pitched out

It’s not quite the Fibonacci sequence, but there’s been an interesting pattern atop the Reds' Top 30 list over the years. Going back to 2012, hitters and pitchers have been trading off as the No. 1 prospect, and it’s been a bat or an arm for at least two years

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- It should have been a routine pickoff play for Reds shortstop prospect Edwin Arroyo. Instead it was a catastrophe. During a March 13, 2024, game vs. the Giants at Scottsdale Stadium, Arroyo was leading off first base when a pickoff throw came. He dove back and extended

This is an exciting time of year at MLB Pipeline. The new Top 100 prospects list is out, Spring Breakout is right around the corner, and prospects across baseball are making their presence felt in big league camps. The smell of the new season hangs in the air. And that

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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- When you're listed as 6-foot-6 and 275 pounds like Reds relief pitcher prospect Zach Maxwell, odds are your nickname will come with the word, "Big." Frank Thomas was "The Big Hurt." Randy Johnson was "The Big Unit." Slugger Jhonkensy Noel of the Guardians is called "Big Christmas."

As the sounds of bats cracking and gloves popping echo across the diamonds of Florida and Arizona, baseball's top prospects will be digging in to push for spots on Major League Opening Day rosters. Although most of these prospects will begin the season in the Minors, there are a handful

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Rhett Lowder isn't worried about his right elbow and neither are the Reds. But the organization's young starting pitcher and No. 2 prospect from 2024 is being handled carefully at Spring Training to the point that he might not be available for their rotation by Opening Day.

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CINCINNATI – Building and maintaining a competitive window via their farm system has been the Reds’ long-time goal. Heading into the 2025 season, it looks as if they are still making inroads developing promising young talent that could help the big league club in the near future. On Friday, MLB

For 19 seasons, Dave Concepción dazzled in Cincinnati. The club’s primary shortstop for the majority of his run, he won five Gold Gloves at the premium spot and was named a National League All-Star nine times. It’s lofty to bestow those expectations on any young player, but it’s the lineage