The Cincinnati Reds will hope they’ve not been divided and conquered on Saturday, as they’ll split their squad to take on both the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics in Cactus League action.
Connor Overton will toe the rubber in Goodyear Ballpark against the Royals, in doing so hoping to improve upon the early mashing done against him in his previous outing. Given the injury to Justin Dunn and Luis Cessa participating in the World Baseball Classic with Mexico, there’s a pretty clear opportunity for him to earn a rotation role if he can put things together the way he did before injury last season, and this will be his next big hurdle.