Red Reporter Jan 10, 2022
2022 Red Reporter Community Prospect Rankings - Cincinnati Reds Top Prospect
Let the voting begin! Gone from ‘prospect status’ are the likes of Jonathan India, Tyler Stephenson, Jose Barrero, Vlad Gutierrez, and Tony Santillan, each of whom donned the jersey of the Cincinnati Reds for enough time during the 2021 season to graduate to the ranks of Big Leaguers. That’s a tremendous amount of talent that moved up to the top level of the system since we last ran our Community Prospect Rankings. That kind of matriculation would have, in many years, left a pretty desolate farm system in its wake. Despite the overall frugality of the team’s ownership...
Red Reporter Dec 31, 2021
New Year’s Redsolutions - Optimism through the fog
Looking ahead at what 2022 could unveil. The Cincinnati Reds gave Tucker Barnhart away. The Cincinnati Reds gave Wade Miley away, too. It’s obvious to anyone who follows this club that Tyler Stephenson is the future behind the plate, and that the idea of a 35 year old pitcher replicating a career-best season isn’t exactly the most rational one on which to bank. Still, just because you built a new house doesn’t mean you just give away the one you’ve lived in because there’s one month’s mortgage payment due. That’s the fog under which the Reds entered this...
