Today marks the deadline for teams to submit to Major League Baseball their initial spring training player pools, which can comprise up to 60 players. Players are not eligible to participate in either a spring training or regular season game until they are included in the pool. Teams are free to change the makeup of the pools as they see fit. However, players removed from a team’s 60-man (for reasons unrelated to injury, suspension, etc.) must be exposed to other organizations via trade or waivers.
Not all players within a team’s pool are ticketed for MLB playing time, of course. Most teams will include well-regarded but still far-off prospects as a means of getting them training reps with no intention of running them onto a major league diamond this season. A comprehensive review of 2020’s unique set of rules can be found here.
The Reds’ initial player pool consists of the following players.
Right-handed pitchers
- R.J. Alaniz
- Tejay Antone
- Trevor Bauer
- David Carpenter
- Luis Castillo
- José de León
- Anthony deSclafani
- Sonny Gray
- Ryan Hendrix
- Raisel Iglesias
- Nate Jones
- Joel Kuhnel
- Michael Lorenzen
- Tyler Mahle
- Alex Powers
- Sal Romano
- Tony Santillan
- Justin Shafer
- Lucas Sims
- Robert Stephenson
- Pedro Strop
- Tyler Thornburg
Left-handed pitchers
Catchers
Infielders
- Alex Blandino
- Christian Colón
- Matt Davidson
- Freddy Galvis
- Jose Garcia
- Jonathan India
- Mike Moustakas
- Alfredo Rodriguez
- Eugenio Suárez
- Joey Votto
- Josh VanMeter
Outfielders
- Aristides Aquino
- Shogo Akiyama
- Nick Castellanos
- Phillip Ervin
- Stuart Fairchild
- Travis Jankowski
- Mark Payton
- Boog Powell
- Scott Schebler
- Nick Senzel
- Jesse Winker
The Reds elected to leave three spots open, naming 57 players to their pool. As C. Trent Rosecrans of the Athletic points out (via Twitter), the club elected not to bring back Derek Dietrich, Vladimir Gutierrez, Chris Okey and Blake Trahan from the first iteration of MLB spring training. Dietrich’s exclusion is particularly notable, since he hit 19 home runs in 306 plate appearances for the club last season, albeit with an odd .187/.328/.462 line (102 wRC+). He had re-upped on a minor-league deal in Februrary. Gutierrez, meanwhile, was one of four players suspended by Major League Baseball today for drug infractions.
Dang no Greene? Idk about that I think they needed to have him for development
Still recovering from TJ.
Maybe they think he’ll benefit more from the developmental staff than MLB staff. I’m sure these decisions are made with a ton of thought, just curious as to the decision.
He was scheduled to return from TJ back in late May/early June. If I’m not mistaken he’s been throwing again already and hitting 100+ again.
as if the Reds needed to add any extra OFs to their roster
David carpenter over hunter Greene? Idk man
They can cut players and add him. Reds will do it to if they are competing down the stretch as they have shown in the past they don’t care to much about service time. Prob won’t be Greene though but lodolo. I giant lefty polished and ready to pitch out of the pen come playoff time. Watch out for the big red machine !
I’m surprised there isn’t Dietrich on here. Just to have him attests at the Prasco Park.
Someone made a good point that Dietrich might have not wanted to go there and is seeking a major league deal elsewhere.
That and with Moose and Davidson there’s 3 1st basemen.
Deitrich is still w the organization, but left off for flexibility w the roster.
No team will benefit more from NL DH w moose and castellanos in line up.
And Jesse Winker, the worst defensive player out of all of them.
Weakest arm and slowest feet for sure.
Did Castellanos make the team?
Easily
Noticed no Brandon Finnegan as well…how far he’s fallen..
left off Matt Bowman, but he is on the team.