Cincinnati Reds Top 46 Prospects

Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Cincinnati Reds. Scouting reports were compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as my own observations. This is the third year we’re delineating between two anticipated relief roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see in the “position” column below: MIRP for multi-inning relief pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning relief pitchers. The ETAs listed generally correspond to the year a player has to be added to the 40-man roster to avoid being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Manual adjustments are made where they seem appropriate, but I use that as a rule of thumb.

A quick overview of what FV (Future Value) means can be found here. A much deeper overview can be found here.

All of the ranked prospects below also appear on The Board, a resource the site offers featuring sortable scouting information for every organization. It has more details (and updated TrackMan data from various sources) than this article and integrates every team’s list so readers can compare prospects across farm systems. It can be found here.

Other Prospects of Note

Grouped by type and listed in order of preference within each category.

High-Risk Hit Tools
Rece Hinds, RF
Ariel Almonte, RF
Justice Thompson, CF
Donovan Antonia, LF
Braylin Minier, 3B

Hinds, 22, has 70-grade power and a plus arm. He took to the outfield like a bird to the sky when he was moved off of third base, and he has plus makeup, but his contact ability and plate discipline are both 30-grade skills. It’s tough to profile in right field when that’s the case, especially as a right-handed hitter. Almonte has a plus frame and plus bat speed, but his hands are super noisy during his set-up and his swing path won’t play at the upper levels as it’s currently constituted. Thompson had a breakout draft year at North Carolina and was worth a pick to see if he could continue that trajectory, but he hasn’t found an offensive groove in pro ball. Antonia had a white-hot start to his 2022 complex-level campaign, but it was cut short by something (there’s no IL stint listed, he just stops playing in August) and his 2022 sample is less robust than it was in ’21, when Antonia punched out 40% of the time. I’m skeptical the surface stats are real even…