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CIN Home Run! Will Benson homers (2) on a fly ball to right center field. Spencer Steer scores. The score is now CIN 4, LAD 1 (Bottom 1)

Elly De La Cruz says goodbye in Goodyear.

114.5 mph EV, 438 feet out to center.

That's his hardest-hit ball of the spring so far.

From the right side, at that 👀

Cactus League Game 10 - Reds vs. Dodgers Elly’s on your tellyvision!

Elly's on the telly!

ESPN will be broadcasting today's game in Goodyear between the Dodgers and Reds, which starts at 3:05 PM ET.

And guess who's in the lineup batting 3rd?

Cincinnati Reds Opening Day roster projection, Volume 2 What will the dugout look like in GABP come Opening Day?

Yesterday brought potentially serious injury news as well as a significant trade, and that got us to begin reconsidering how the Opening Day roster of the Cincinnati Reds might look now.

Here's our second stab at it of the spring:

Reds trade Tyler Callihan to Pirates for Kyle Nicholas Cincinnati adds a power arm for their bullpen mix.

The Reds thought they lacked the requisite depth on their roster of 'players from Ohio,' so they remedied that on Wednesday in another deal with the Pirates.

Will we see the real Elly De La Cruz on the bases in 2026? Can he once again lead the league in stolen bases?

Will Terry Francona let Elly De La Cruz run the bases more aggressively in 2026 than they did last year?

Will batting 3rd squander those chances?

Can Elly once again swipe more than 50 bags for the ol' Redlegs?

one of those days for the 'ol Redlegs

Elly De La Cruz, the man who only hits for extra bases

Greene a little luck that Sal Frelick blast went just fould down the RF line...though he did end up drawing a walk.

Hunter Greene smacked around here, there, and everywhere isn't exactly what you tuned in to watch, but the stuff looked more than fine for his first outing of the spring.

Will be interesting to see if he's back out there in the 2nd for some more refining.

Believe it or not, the Cincinnati Reds play a baseball game tomorrow that you'll be able to watch on your screens with your own eyes, or eyes of another if that's something you can do!

Clear your schedules - Hunter Greene gets the start with a 3:05 PM ET first pitch!

To each their own!

(I don't.)

He's got his perks! No doubt about it!

I think my thought process is more trying to highlight that even if the Reds thought he had that bounce-back potential, they didn't acquire him at any discount despite how far his bat had dipped. They paid full price (and then some)!

232 MLB players have logged at least 500 PA against RHP since the start of 2024.

Hayes ranks last (.287 SLG). 2nd worst isat .310.

His 58 wRC+ against RHP in that time? Also totally, completely last.

I don't know exactly where I'm going with this, but it's worth putting out there that Ke'Bryan Hayes has 'slugged' .299 in 966 PA dating back to the start of the 2024 season.

Hey it's 10-9 because, y'know, spring training baseball!

Almost had another, but it ended up a 2-run double (and he got thrown out trying to make it into a triple).

Reds are pouring it on the Padres bullpen right now in the 5th. They're up 8-3.

Elly De La Cruz has his first triple of the Cactus League campaign, so that's pretty cool.

I’ve heard enough. Nick Lodolo’s gonna win the Cy Young this year.

Reds walk off Royals for first win of Cactus League campaign Elly De La Cruz and Eugenio Suarez swatted back to back homers, too!

You couldn't see the Reds walk off the Royals, but it was probably pretty cool!

Also this is the first (and only) known photo of a gum bubble *and* Geno where the gum bubble does not belong to Geno.

a little girl is swinging a bat at a baseball on a field . ALT: a little girl is swinging a bat at a baseball on a field .

here's what it probably looked like since MLB won't let anybody see it for real:

Elly and Geno blasting back to back dingers?

Yeah, my 2026 is going to need a whole lot of that.

Cactus League Game 3 - Reds vs. Royals The Cincinnati Reds take the field in more spring training baseball action.

The Reds are rolling out a lineup with Friedl, McLain, Elly, and AU-Henny-O atop it, with first pitch scheduled for just 10 minutes from now.

No, of course you can't watch it! Why would you think you'd be able to watch it?!

You can talk about it with us here, though:

It's still just a very, very small sample, but there's at least a little bit in the numbers to suggest that Hayes is modifying the way he approaches each PA.

Even if he's never going to slug, perhaps it will get him on base a bit more often.

On that:

I've been looking at batted ball data from Ke'Bryan Hayes off and on for two days trying to figure out if there's some way, any way for the Reds to 'fix' him and my conclusion is that he should probably just never, ever swing and just hope he gets walked.

Cincinnati Reds Opening Day roster projection, Volume 1 What will the dugout look like in GABP come Opening Day?

Given what we know (nothing) so far (even less), here's our first stab at the Opening Day roster of the Cincinnati Reds, something that will surely change minute by minute from the moment it was posted:

You can watch Cincinnati Reds spring training games for free - Redleg Nation The Cincinnati Reds are offering free spring training games to fans through their Reds.tv platform this February and March.

You can watch *some* of the Cincinnati #Reds spring training games for free this year

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Pretty cool Chase Burns mention here if you read down enough.

Also an Edwin Arroyo sighting 👀

Thought the Derek Johnson/Vandy pipeline might land him with the Reds, but I think he's got a clearer path to the Padres rotation than he would have in Cincinnati.