Every Cincinnati Reds Starting Pitcher Analyzed 2025 – PL Pro Early Access

To organize my Prime 400 Beginning Pitchers for 2025 article, I totally evaluate each staff’s rotation and write the blurbs you see in February. I often do not share these publicly till then, however I needed to present one other profit to those that assist us with PL Professional. Y’all are those who preserve the lights on for us. Y’all rock.

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Anticipated Starters

Hunter Greene (CIN, RHP)

2024 has all of the indicators of a peak season from Greene. A silly low 5.7 hit-per-nine with basic minute .239 BABIP behind it, a house run fee lower in half to simply 0.72 HR/9 (and seven.2% HR/FB!), an 80% LOB fee (oh snap, the total “HOTEL” in impact!), and enhancements in ICR fee in opposition to all hitters along with his four-seamer and slider.

And it does not make an entire lot of sense. His four-seamer did acquire an additional inch of “iVB” to 16″ from 15″ with a slight uptick in extension to six.5 (that is high quality, not stellar, however high quality), however is that sufficient to warrant 60% decline in HRs allowed on the heater? However he added a splitter! He barely touched it to RHB (it was horrible) and it held a paltry 14% putaway fee to LHB with an 11% SwStr fee a horrible strike simply above 50%. It wasn’t good y’all.

It is potential I am undervaluing the small features on the heater merged with a give attention to elevated lateral break on the slider at the price of drop. And but, everyone knows regression is coming to some extent (that’s, his pitch outcomes are nonetheless not consultant of a 5.7 hits per 9. That is remarkable), and I am not assured we’re a sizeable distance away from the 4.82 ERA, 1.42 WHIP days of 2023. That is all with out point out his large damage danger along with his extremely velo and 26 begins marking his profession excessive final yr, nor the coiled HR fee prepared for liftoff in Cincinnati.

Fast Take: Greene’s 28% strikeout fee with wonderful ratios in 2024 is certain to prop him in drafts, although the dearth of a 3rd pitch merged with clear regression throughout efficiency has me labeling Greene as a excessive bust candidate for 2025. I might wait till the productive workhorses are off the board for consideration.

Brady Singer (CIN, RHP)