CINCINNATI -- The Reds signed the No. 2 overall selection of the 2024 MLB Draft on Thursday after right-handed starting pitcher Chase Burns agreed to terms. Burns, 21, will receive a record signing bonus of $9.25 million, sources told MLB.com. It surpassed the $9.2 million last year's first overall pick,

CINCINNATI -- There were weeks, months and sometimes years of scouting games and showcases, filling out reports and evaluations, and conducting interviews. All of it went into the last three days as the Reds navigated through the 2024 MLB Draft. And just like that, it's over. “I am real happy

CINCINNATI -- When it came time to make their first few picks on Monday's Day 2 of the 2024 MLB Draft, the Reds felt like good fortune shined upon them. Cincinnati's third-round pick (No. 87 overall), college center fielder Mike Sirota out of Northeastern, was ranked by MLB Pipeline as

With their third-round Draft pick (87th overall), the Reds drafted OF Mike Sirota out of Northeastern University. As a child, Sirota was fascinated by the tales his granduncle and MLB Hall of Famer Whitey Ford told about his legendary career with the Yankees.

CINCINNATI – Getting Drafted by a Major League organization once, let alone a second time, and playing professional baseball was hard to fathom for Luke Holman when he was a young boy. But it happened when Holman, a childhood cancer survivor and starting pitcher from LSU, was taken by the

CINCINNATI -- Many thought that Wake Forest right-hander Chase Burns would be the first pitcher to come off the board during the 2024 MLB Draft. But few expected that Burns would be selected as high as the Reds picked him, at No. 2 overall. Not even Burns saw that one

CINCINNATI -- The Reds' Day 1 Draft strategy seems to have a workable playbook under amateur scouting director Joe Katuska. Just take starting pitchers from Wake Forest and LSU and a high school shortstop. On Sunday, Day 1 of the 2024 MLB Draft, Cincinnati used the No. 2 overall pick

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- When Chase Burns has a baseball in his right hand and hurls it toward home plate at 100 mph to strike out hitters with exceptional frequency, the righty's persona matches the heat of his pitches: fiery, self-assured, swaggering. When the 21-year-old is off the mound and pondering

Chase Burns boasts a triple-digit fastball and an elite slider, both of which have the possibility to play at the Major League level. Though the raw talent is clear, questions about his MLB potential tempered his Draft stock. But after a transfer and some changes to his mechanics, he was

ARLINGTON -- As Cam Collier rounded second base in the third inning of Saturday’s All-Star Futures Game, he spotted his family in the crowd, pointing at them after his solo home run had accounted for the game’s first run. “To look in the stands as I rounded the bases was

CINCINNATI -- The Rece Hinds Show continued in Cincinnati's 10-6 win over Miami on Saturday afternoon at Great American Ball Park. The Reds rookie completed his next achievement: His first multihomer game in just his sixth Major League appearance. The first of Hinds' two homers, a solo long ball in

CINCINNATI -- What a week rookie Rece Hinds is having. Normally, with a right-handed pitcher starting against the Reds, such as Marlins starter Yonny Chirinos on Friday, manager David Bell might have gone with a lefty hitter to start in right field. Not this time -- especially the way the

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CINCINNATI -- Through two big league games, Reds rookie right fielder Rece Hinds is posting video game-like numbers -- if the game was in easy mode. “The ball looks slow and big coming into the zone right now," Hinds said. Clearly. Hinds notched three more extra-base hits -- including another

CINCINNATI -- Right fielder Rece Hinds wasn't expecting to get his first big league promotion to the Reds and was asleep when Triple-A Louisville manager Pat Kelly woke him to deliver the surprising news Sunday night. After that, Hinds made a call to his mother, Michelle, but that proved overwhelming.

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This story was excerpted from Mark Sheldon’s Reds Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. LOS ANGELES -- When MLB Pipeline revealed its revised Top 100 prospects list on Tuesday, some players in the Reds organization fluctuated rather significantly.

In an era that places a premium on platoon advantages, switch-hitters can be the most versatile members of a lineup -- even if they've become increasingly hard to find. Over the past four seasons, the number of switch-hitting batters in the Majors has slowly ticked down from 10.7 percent in

Since being selected with the No. 7 overall pick in last year's Draft by Cincinnati, Rhett Lowder has found that one of the biggest adjustments going from the college game to being a pro is -- time. The 22-year-old says he has a lot more free time on his hands

The role of the reliever continues to evolve in baseball, but there’s still something to be said about closers. They’re the ones who get the entrance music and the light show just for coming out of the bullpen in the biggest of spots. (Think of what Edwin Díaz has done