The Cincinnati Reds expedited their most recent rebuild at the trade deadline of the 2022 Major League Baseball season. A huge portion of that came in the form of dealing ace Luis Castillo to the Seattle Mariners, a club who had postseason ambitions both in that season and the future that would follow.
The Reds made out well in that deal, to date. Noelvi Marte was the centerpiece and remains, by most accounts, the top prospect in the Cincinnati system after his brief big league debut last year. The only place he seems to have been pipped for the title of ‘top prospect in the Reds system’ is from FanGraphs, where the ZiPS Top 100 prospect list actually has Edwin Arroyo - also acquired from Seattle in that Castillo deal - ranked slightly ahead of Marte.