Picture: Doug Grey
The Spring Breakout collection was a hit in it’s first 12 months in 2024. Every group put collectively a workforce of their high prospects and everybody performed not less than one sport towards one other group. The Cincinnati Reds performed in two of these video games. This 12 months they are going to solely be enjoying in a single and they are going to be going through off towards the prospect workforce from the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday March sixteenth at 7:40pm ET. That would be the ultimate sport of the Spring Breakout schedule for 2025. It is possible for you to to observe the sport on MLB Community, MLB.television, or MLB.com. And at the moment we came upon who will likely be on the workforce and which gamers you’re going to get to observe.
Pitchers
Catchers
Infielders
Outfielders
The roster is topic to vary. And it could as a result of as we came upon yesterday, Cam Collier injured his thumb in his final sport performed. There isn’t a lot element but concerning the harm and if it is going to price him any vital time – he’s anticipated to see a medical skilled about it at the moment.
What we do know is that the preliminary roster options 17 of the Reds high 25 prospects and 9 of the highest 10. Rhett Lowder is the one participant within the high 10 that isn’t right here and he’s at present engaged on getting back from some elbow discomfort. Two different gamers within the high 25 are nonetheless in huge league camp and competing for a spot on the roster (Blake Dunn and Rece Hinds).
Two of the extra attention-grabbing guys on this roster are guys that you just doubtless have by no means had an opportunity to see play. Tyson Lewis was the Reds 2nd spherical draft decide final 12 months out of highschool. He’s acquired the entire instruments, however he’s by no means performed in knowledgeable sport at this level. Then there’s Arnaldo Lantigua, who was acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers this previous offseason. The now 19-year-old hit .301/.430/.575 with 19 extra-base hits in 49 video games final season for the Dodgers Dominican Summer time League workforce. He’s within the US for the primary time this spring.
One other lesser identified however attention-grabbing prospect on the workforce is Kyle Henley. He’s one of many quickest gamers within the group, however he’s greater than only a speedster. He’s acquired some energy potential to faucet into as properly. Final 12 months he hit .280/.372/.406 with 35 steals and was caught simply 3 times whereas enjoying for the Arizona Complicated League Reds.