With the news that Joey Votto would be unavailable for Opening Day as a member of the Cincinnati Reds this year coming within the last week, we knew there would be some final finagling to the team’s roster for their first game of the 2023 season. With the news that they would be waiting until Thursday morning to finalize it, it made a lot of us believe there would be either a trade or waiver claims to augment things in the final hours before rosters were due.
As it turns out, the Reds are staying in-house for their 26-man roster for Game One, and announced the final moves to get there just minutes ago.