For what feels like the fiftieth time this spring, the Cincinnati Reds played to a tie. Taking on Cleveland at home in Goodyear both teams scored nine runs through nine innings and decided that enough was enough. This afternoon they will hit the road to take on the Colorado Rockies at 4:05pm ET.
Cincinnati Reds (6-11-5) Starting Lineup:
- Jesse Winker – Left Field
- Scott Schebler – Center Field
- Jose Iglesias – Shortstop
- Eugenio Suarez – Third Base
- Phillip Ervin – Right Field
- Kyle Farmer – Second Base
- Connor Joe – First Base
- Juan Graterol – Catcher
- Tyler Mahle – Starting Pitcher
Also scheduled to pitch today for the Cincinnati Reds:David Hernandez, Raisel Iglesias, Wandy Peralta, Matt Wisler, and Buddy Boshers.
Reserve players on todays roster:
Pitchers
- Joel Kuhnel (RHP)
- Austin Orewiler (RHP)
- Alex Powers (RHP)
Catchers
- Robert Boselli
- Tyler Stephenson
Infielders
- Christian Colon
- Gavin LaValley
- Nick Longhi
- Yonathan Mendoza
- Blake Trahan
- Josh VanMeter
- Randy Ventura
Outfielders
- Aristides Aquino
- TJ Friedl
- Narciso Crook
- Miles Gordon
Colorado Rockies (10-12) Starting Lineup
- Charlie Blackmon – Right Field
- Nolen Arenado – Third Base
- David Dahl – Left Field
- Trevor Story – Shortstop
- Ian Desmond – Center Field
- Ryan McMahon – Second Base
- Mark Reynolds – First Base
- Chris Iannetta – Catcher
- Kyle Freeland – Starting Pitcher
Where to Watch/Listen/Follow the games
The game will be live on the Reds on Radio network. In Cincinnati the game will be on 700 WLW. You will be able to watch the game live on MLB Network and on MLB.tv.
Schebler goes oppo off a lefty !!!!!!!
Winker has an 897 OPS for his career so far. That would be 17th among all MLB outfielders in that time-frame if he had enough at-bats to qualify.
I’m going to take that over the 30+ at-bats he’s had so far in spring training.
Similar story with Castillo’s body of work over the last 2 seasons rather than 8 spring training innings.
Maybe, if Senzel continues to struggle, you could use that as an excuse to start him in AAA. A slow spring training at the plate along with limited experience in center field could be a reasonable justification to not being on the big league roster on opening day.
For Winker, Senzel and pretty much everyone else on the roster, their performance over their career should mean much more than their spring training stats.
Spring stats are used in whatever way the team decides to use them.Vets get a pass because of the money and the back of their baseball card.Young uns have neither of those so it becomes what somebody else thinks.Winker’s numbers are terrible and only Votto’s are worse.Both will start opening day even if they never get another this spring.
Mahle isn’t sharp at all. Nice to see him mixing in some curves because the fastball is getting hammered. I’d rather roll the dice with BobSteve.
First subpar outing for Mahle. You’d crap out rolling dice for RS.
subtract rolling and you have it right
Robert Stephenson (call me Bob) has a sore shoulder. Has he pitched at all this Spring?
Nuxhall used to say that there was a period of time in ST when the pitcher’s arms felt “dead”, in other words, they were fatigued and not enough conditioning yet. So they bounce back after a “dead arm” outing. If Mahle is getting hammered, I would like to just chalk it up to that, and see how he pitches the next time out.
After Roark, Gray and Disco the starting rotation is looking thin. Wood won’t be ready for opening day and Castillo and Mahle have not shown much. Time to strecht other guys (Lorenzen, Wisler, Reed).
Mahle hadn’t given up a run until today. Castillo was much better in his last outing. Two good arms going through ST. They’ll be fine.
WV, you sure put a lot of weight on small spring sample sizes. Should the Reds considering DFA’g Votto?
One could make a case for Phillip Ervin getting more PT in Center.
This is a very valid scenario. Ervin showed me last year that he can hit. His defense? Well, that’s still to be determined. It seems clear to me that he will either be a platoon regular outfielder this year, or be ready to fill the gap(s) left by the departure of Kemp and-or Puig.
Other than Wood, who’s the left-handed starter? Noticed Yankees grabbing Gio on minors deal. Since we have his old pitching coach, I guess he must really stink eh?
So far this spring has been an extension of 2018. We just don’t create enough run scoring plays. Plenty of base runners but there just seems to be no plan to get them home. It’s like the base runner and batter aren’t on the same page most of the time.
I feel like with the Reds once you get on base your job is done. It’s totally the responsibility of the batter to drive you in. I know I am old but with the BRM and1990 club your job was just beginning when you got on base. The responsibility of scoring was equally divided between runner and batter.
Their baserunning was as bad as I’ve ever seen last year. Lets see if Bell can clean it up. Imo Votto was the worst of the bunch. Not just slow, but couldn’t read the ball off the bat? Winker is horrible too….slow and indecisive. Thats stuff that can be cleaned up though.
I disagree with the Castillo assessment but I can see Winker and Senzel being in Louisville to open the season:
Schebler OPS: 1.368
Ervin OPS: 1.300
Puig OPS: 1.272
Kemp OPS: 1.073
Senzel OPS: 0.690
Winker OPS: 0.547
I know this is spring training. But Schebler and Kemp were starting OF last year. Senzel has shown nothing to show he is superior to Schebler. Since there is a control issue and he clearly did not beat out Schebler this spring he is in Louisville. I am not sure how anyone can make a argument to the contrary. I understand the argument that spring training is irrelevant to Joey Votto. That is not the case for someone who has not had a full season of AB in AAA. He has two weeks left to turn it around but I think Senzel opens in Louisville. Schebler will be in CF on opening day and it isn’t even close.
The interesting battle is Kemp/Winker. Kemp is in a contract year. His last contract year he put up a career best .399 OBP. His last contract year he put up a career best .586 SLG%. I am not sure how this battle plays out. A month ago I felt this was Winker’s spot to lose. Question is, did he lose it? The last two weeks will tell.
I could without a doubt see opening day OF spots go to Kemp/Schebler/Puig/Ervin at this point.
He is on the very short list of athletes who deserve that distinction.
Looks like that idea of the owners working together to keep the cost of contracts down just went out the window.What happens next?Wonder what the singing cowboy Gene Autry would say if he were alive today.Better yet I wonder what his horse Champion would think.