News about Hunter Greene

The Reds declared on Tuesday that they were calling up the 21-year-old from their Triple-A squad, the Louisville Bats, to give one of the minor league's most exciting players his first big league test. With an exit speed of 118.8 mph reported by Statcast, De La Cruz was tied for the hardest-hit ball in all professional baseball leagues this year. In the same game, he also hit two other balls over 116 mph. No major league team has ever had three in a game.

After playing for years in Japan, Masataka Yoshida has already made some mechanical improvements at the plate during his rookie season with the Boston Red Sox. They certainly paid the bill on Sunday. Boston roared to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 12-5 after Yoshida homered twice during Boston's nine-run outburst in the eighth inning. Since Hall of Fame slugger David Ortiz's debut in August 2008, he became the first Red Sox player to go deep in a single inning.

The Cincinnati Reds have found their money by bringing starting pitcher Hunter Greene, 23, to a six-year, $53 million contract extension. 2029 and a $21 million buyout are two options available in Cincinnati, as well as a $21 million buyout. Of course, Greene's contract comes after years of fan resistance against the Castellini family for refusing to re-sign their leading actors. After Greene's deal was revealed, one fan posted on Twitter: 'Cheap Bob Castellini will find a way to trade him within two years.'

On Monday, the Reds' game against the Tampa Bay Rays in Cincinnati at a new low for The Great American Ball Park. Despite Monday's 8-1 win over the Red-hot Rays, the 20-year-old stadium held a record 463 fans for Opening Day on March 30, but conditions have deteriorated since the oldest team in professional baseball has lost to 7-9. The Reds' new record would not be bad on its own, unless the team is coming off a last-place finish at 62-100 in 2022. Fans have chastised Reds owner Bob Castellini and his son, Reds president and CEO Phil Castellini, for their apparent tenacity.

Major League Baseball returned from 2023 with a variety of highlights, surprises, and spectacular performances from Opening Day. In Pittsburgh's eighth innings, oneil Cruz homered shortly after a pitch clock error helped him and later hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the eighth inning. In the third and fourth, there were two pitch-clock errors made by Reds starter Hunter Greene in the third and Pirates starter Mitch Keller in the fourth. Both at-bats ended with home runs.

Congratulations, you've made it. The baseball offseason is over, and we're going full steam ahead of Opening Day on Thursday. Pitchers from all 30 MLB clubs will take the field in just a few hours, with fresh optimism and renewed hope that this is going to be *their* year. There have been a slew of changes, none of which we'll discuss here, but there is certainly more excitement among fans than ever before.