2025 Statcast: The Other Cincinnati Reds Superlatives

Last Monday we wrapped up the 2025 Cincinnati Reds longest home runs list with the 451-foot home run hit by Elly De La Cruz. The Reds shortstop found himself accounting for six home runs on the top 10 list. Home runs are fun. And while fans have always admired them, in the last decade plus we’ve gotten the tools to give us rather accurate measurements of them. Those same tools, though, have also brought us the ability to (mostly) measure lots of other things on the field, too. Today we’re going to look at some of the other top feats by Reds players in the 2025 season.

The Fastest Reds Pitch of 2025

You probably won’t be surprised to find out that Hunter Greene threw the fastest pitch of the season by the Cincinnati Reds pitching staff. On August 25th he threw a 102.2 MPH fastball to Shohei Ohtani. That pitch, though, was a ball. The fastest strike thrown by a Reds pitcher in 2025 was from Luis Mey when he got Brendan Rodgers to ground out on a 102.1 MPH fastball on May 10th in Houston.

On the year we saw Cincinnati pitchers throw 464 fastballs that were at least 100.0 MPH. Here’s the breakdown of how many of those were thrown by each pitcher:

• Hunter Greene – 296
• Chase Burns – 66
• Luis Mey – 60
• Zach Maxwell – 35
• Graham Ashcraft – 4
• Connor Phillips – 3

The Fastest Time from Home to 1st Base

There are several categories here. Left-handed hitters are closer to first base than righties are, so we’re going to look at each. Bunts allow guys to get down the line first because there’s less delay from contact to starting to run because there’s no swing follow through, so we’ll also check that category versus a full swing time to first.

The Lefties

When it comes to the bunt the fastest time from home to first base was from TJ Friedl at 3.75 seconds. Even at that time he still couldn’t turn it into a hit. But there’s a tie-breaker here because Friedl had a second bunt that resulted in a 3.75 second run to first base and that one turned into a hit on July 4th against Philadelphia.

When it comes to the fastest time to first base on a full swing from a left-handed hitter that one goes to Elly De La Cruz. The shortstop singled on a grounder to first base on June 24th, getting to the bag in 4.09 seconds.

The Righties

If I gave you ten guesses on which right-handed hitter had the fastest home to first time on a bunt for the 2025 Cincinnati Reds I’m not sure you would get the answer right. But if you guessed Garrett Hampson then you deserve a pat on the back. He turned in a 3.75 run to first but he was unable to turn it into a hit. Blake Dunn had the fastest home to first time on a bunt from a righty that became a hit, coming in at 3.91 on April 28th against the Cardinals.

The fastest time to first base on a swing from a right-handed hitter in the regular season was from Matt McLain. He grounded out on the play but got to first base in 4.04 seconds. Elly De La Cruz topped that in the playoffs on a force out where he got to the bag in 4.02 seconds. De La Cruz had the fastest time on a single from the right side of the plate with a 4.12 time to first on June 30th in Boston.

The Fastest Sprint Speeds

Unlike the time to the bag, sprint speed is measured by the top speed a player reaches. A guy can reach a higher speed but still be slower to the bag if they don’t reach that speed as quickly or if they slow down sooner. Being a left-handed hitter or right-handed hitter doesn’t matter here. But there is one thing that does matter here – was the player the batter or was the player a baserunner? We’ll take a look at both.

As the batter

Elly De La Cruz had the top six sprint speeds on the season for the Reds as a batter. He had nine of the top 10. And he had 14 of the top 16. He’s fast. Especially when he’s healthy. Only three of his top 30 sprint speeds on the season came in the second half. His top 11 sprint speeds all came before July began. As for the top sprint speed, well that came on June 24th against the Yankees. It was the same play in which he had the top sprint speed from the left side on a hit that was noted above. Blake Dunn was the only other Reds player to reach 31.0 feet per second, doing so on his bunt single on April 28th.

As a baseunner

Elly De La Cruz topped this category as well. Spencer Steer hit a sacrifice fly to left field and De La Cruz scored on the play. But it probably didn’t look like you’d think, either. He almost fell over as he took off from third base before recovering and sliding head first into the plate ahead of the throw. On the plate he reached a speed of 30.9 feet per second.

The Fastest Throws by Fielders

This is going to have multiple categories because throwing is quite a bit different for infielders, outfielders, and catchers.

The Infielders

When it comes to just all throws made by infielders it’s a list that is absolutely dominated by Elly De La Cruz. He owns the top 35 spots for the Reds and 46 of the top 50.

On September 8th in San Diego he threw out Jose Iglesias, reaching 95.9 MPH on the throw. And he needed every bit of it as it was a bang-bang play at first. That wasn’t his top throw of the year, though. On July 21st in Washington he took a relay throw from TJ Friedl on a double and fired it home at 101.0 MPH. The throw was late and the run scored on the play. Noelvi Marte takes the “non-Elly De La Cruz” trophy here with an 88.5 MPH throw on May 2nd.

The Outfielders

Unlike the infield, no single player dominated this list. But Austin Hays did find himself on it a bit more than the others. He topped the list with a 98.7 MPH throw on July 13th against the Rockies. Like the De La Cruz relay throw above, it was late and the runner scored on the play.

The hardest thrown assist of the season for an outfielder came on May 21st when Rece Hinds threw out Isiah Kiner-Falefa at the plate as he tried to tag up and score from 3rd. That throw was 96.9 MPH.

The Catchers

Tyler Stephenson dominated this list, holding 30 of the top 32 marks among the Reds catchers in terms of arm strength. On June 30th he topped out at 83.3 MPH. That marked both the fastest throw overall as well as the fastest throw on an assist. Will Banfield was 2nd on the list at 82.3 MPH and was the only non-Stephenson mark in the top 20.

Arm strength is one thing. But the ability to get the ball from the mitt to the bag is more than just pure arm strength, and that’s where Stephenson might not quite stack up with his teammates because while he dominated the arm strength category he only had seven of the top 20 pop times to second base for the Reds on the season. The top time went to Austin Wynns at 1.85 seconds. That was on a pitch out, though. Jose Trevino was slightly slower on September 6th with a 1.86 second pop time on a non-pitch out.

When it comes to pop times for the Reds there were only two under 2.0 seconds on pitches that were swung at by the batter (out of 46 sub 2.0 second pop times). Both were with Jose Trevino behind the plate. On August 27th he came through at 1.96 seconds on a throw that didn’t matter because the strikeout was the final out of the inning. On June 11th, though, his 1.98 second pop time did count as Nick Lodolo struck out Johnathan Rodriguez and then Trevino’s throw to second nailed Nolan Jones for a double play.

Who Covered the Most Distance

When you think about a player running forever to make a play you likely imagine one of the outfielders making a play deep in the gap. But that isn’t what happened for the Reds in 2025.

The outfielder who covered the most distance for Cincinnati on a play they turned into an out in 2025 was Jake Fraley back on May 5th. He ran 135 feet to catch a pop up in foul territory in Atlanta that landed in his glove on the warning track near the tarp on a diving play. It was far and away the most distance covered by a Reds outfielder with TJ Friedl coming up second at just 116 feet on a shallow fly to center where he almost caught it at a standstill.

But there were multiple infielders between the Fraley catch and the Friedl catch. Santiago Espinal ran 121 feet on April 12th to catch a ball in foul territory at Great American Ball Park while he was playing second base.

The Hardest Hit Ball

While we covered the longest home runs already we haven’t looked at the overall hit metrics. Well, sort of. The three hardest hit baseballs of the Reds season were home runs, but only the third one made the list. The hardest hit ball of the season was 117.4 MPH by Elly De La Cruz back on June 1st when he hit a 423-foot home run.

When it comes to non-home runs, well that was also off of the bat of De La Cruz. He singled on May 7th in Atlanta at 114.8 MPH. The hardest hit double of the season was off of the bat of Noelvi Marte on August 5th in Chicago at 112.8 MPH. De La Cruz came through with the hardest hit triple when he picked up a 3-bagger in St. Louis back on June 21st at 110.3 MPH.