Opening Day for the Cincinnati Reds is just three weeks from tomorrow, yet at dawn on the morning of March 5th they still had 61 players in their big league camp.
That changed by noon, however, as the club made their first cuts of the year. Six players were reassigned to minor league camp, including top prospects Edwin Arroyo and Cam Collier. The Athletic’s C. Trent Rosecrans helped relay the news, noting that Hector Rodriguez, Jose Acuña, Michael Trautwein, and Ivan Johnson had joined them.
There is no huge surprise with any of these players being reassigned at this point in camp, even though there’s a ton of talent and upside with most of them.