GOODYEAR, Ariz. – The tears started flowing when Hunter Greene called his parents on Tuesday afternoon.
Five years after Sports Illustrated called him “the star baseball needs,” four-and-a-half years after Greene was the No. 2 pick in the 2017 MLB Draft, three years after he underwent Tommy John surgery, he reached his dream and was headed to the Major Leagues.
The Cincinnati Reds announced their rotation for the first five games of the season. Tyler Mahle, Reiver Sanmartin, Vladimir Gutierrez and Greene, in that order, will start in the Reds’ opening series in Atlanta, which begins April 7.