The Cincinnati Reds odds and the principles dictated had them getting into the day with the seventh choice, however none of that actually issues as a result of the draft lottery permits for luck to become involved. In 2024 the Reds beat the chances and wound up with the 2nd total decide regardless of being projected within the teenagers. This 12 months Cincinnati didn’t enhance their projected spot as they wound up with the ninth total decide this 12 months.
The Reds have had picks within the earlier two drafts. Again in 2023 they chose Rhett Lowder with the seventh total pick of Wake Forest. This previous summer time they chose Chase Burns with the 2nd total decide – additionally out of Wake Forest.
Cincinnati has solely had the #9 total decide as soon as. It got here again in 1994 and that 12 months they chose C.J. Nitkowski – a left-handed pitcher out of St. Johns. He would play for the Reds for half of 1 season, in 1995, earlier than being traded on the commerce deadline to the Detroit Tigers for David Wells. Nitkowski would pitch in elements of 10 large league seasons, throwing 479.0 innings with a 5.37 ERA and a -1.0 WAR (Baseball Reference model) for his profession.
The Reds have been doing pretty properly with Prime 10 picks for some time now. Going again to 2004, right here’s the listing of picks they made in years the place they had been deciding on within the Prime 10:
Homer Bailey
Drew Stubbs
Yonder Alonso
Mike Leake
Nick Senzel
Hunter Greene
Jonathan India
Nick Lodolo
Rhett Lowder
Chase Burns
They definitely haven’t been nice. There’s not a star participant in there, however Hunter Greene simply put up a star caliber season in 2024 and he’s bought loads of time so as to add to that and turn into a star. However there are many good large leaguers in there, even when flawed ones. Cincinnati has gotten day by day gamers/high quality beginning pitchers from most of their picks and most groups can’t say that. With that stated, different groups can definitely level to having drafted a famous person in that time-frame, too, and the Reds completely can’t.
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