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Terry Francona Provides Huge Injury Update On Reds Ace Hunter Greene
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Cincinnati Reds have been without their ace, Hunter Greene, for over a month now, yet they've managed to continue to contend in the loaded National League. Terry Francona's team is seemingly all-in this season, as seen by their bold decision to fast-track Chase Burns to the big leagues to win right now. But without Greene, this Reds team isn't the same. They lack an ace that can match up with the top pitchers in the league. Andrew Abbott has been incredible this season, but he would be even better as the No. 2 behind Greene. Earlier this month, Greene was supposed to make a rehab start but suffered a setback with his groin and back injury. But recently, the Reds' skipper revealed Greene was set to take a huge step toward his return to Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, OHIO - MAY 23: Hunter Greene #21 of the Cincinnati Reds looks on during a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs at Great American Ball Park on May 23, 2025 in Cincinnati, Ohio. CINCINNATI, OHIO - MAY 23: Hunter Greene #21 of the Cincinnati Reds looks on during a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs at Great American Ball Park on May 23, 2025 in Cincinnati, recently said that Green would begin his rehab assignment early next week with one start at the Arizona Complex League before heading to Triple-A, according to Red insider Charlie Goldsmith. It's likely the Reds will be cautious with the top pitcher in their organization, but this update should be a huge relief for Reds fans. Greene is gearing up for a return at the perfect time. The Reds will likely look to cautiously buy at the trade deadline. Pair that with Greene's return, and the Reds could quietly force themselves into the postseason picture in the NL. It's going to be an uphill battle for the Reds to crack into the postseason with all the talent on their side of the league, but having Greene back on the mound will give them a real chance to shock the baseball world. More MLB: Astros' Top Prospect Projected To Sign 8-Year, $80 Million Contract Extension
Yahoo
09-07-2025
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Reds pitcher Chase Burns bounces back but Phillies take the series finale
PHILADELPHIA − Now that was more like the Chase Burns the Cincinnati Reds want and need. Tasked with bouncing back from recording just one out and a pitch-tipping conundrum against the Boston Red Sox six days earlier, Burns returned to the mound Sunday, July 6 for the Reds and offered a far more respectable showing against the star-laden, power-driven Philadelphia Phillies. Advertisement Philadelphia won, 3-1, but Burns went 4 2/3 innings. He exited having blanked the National League East-leading Phillies (53-37) but was charged with an earned run when reliever Sam Moll entered the game and allowed a game-tying double to Middletown-native Kyle Schwarber. Reds injuries Hunter Greene Terry Francona: Hunter Greene passes bullpen session test, set for rehab assignment Tuesday Burns' pitch count climbed to 91 with two outs in the fifth inning, so it wasn't the picture of efficiency. But it was a competitive and utilitarian progression in his third MLB start, and especially in light of the pitch-tipping issue that seemed to doom him at Fenway Park earlier in the week. Burns reduced his ERA by more than five runs as it fell from 13.50 to 8.10 by the end of his outing. Advertisement "I felt really confident going into (Sunday)," Burns said. "We kinda knew what small things they could have been picking up on, so just addressing those right away. I think I cleaned up a lot of things that helped me get through this outing." Chase Burns bounced back from his rough outing in Boston by pitching 4 2/3 innings against the Phillies, allowing only one run on two hits and four walks while striking out seven. He left the game with a 1-0 lead. The Phillies mounted threats against Burns due in part to the four walks he allowed, but Burns battled out of trouble in the first and second innings. He only allowed two hits and struck out seven. "We saw a few things today," Reds manager Terry Francona said. "One, all the things we had heard. He'll compete. He didn't back down. It's not an easy lineup and he wasn't commanding. There's a lot of pitches but he did OK." Advertisement Sunday's performance by Burns was more proof-of-concept of the player. He dazzled in his MLB debut, striking out the first five New York Yankees he faced on June 24. The seven runs he allowed in 1/3 of an inning at Fenway Park gave some fans and pundits pause, but he appeared to be back on track after facing the Phillies. Maybe that should have been expected. Veteran Reds reliever Emilio Pagán said bouncing back from pitch-tipping issues would be hard for any pitcher to respond to. He also offered that it was possible − maybe even likely − Burns would come back with the kind of game he had in South Philadelphia. "It's the big leagues. Boston has a really good lineup and they're really swinging it. You have to understand that, too," Pagán said. "The little bit I've been around Chase this past offseason and in spring training, he's a super-mature, super-confident kid from a very good family where he was raised to do things the right way. I don't think anybody's worried about him." Advertisement Pagán described the pitching staff's attention to detail in their respective deliveries. The process of identifying delivery flaws beings in front of mirrors in spring training, and continues as they throw each day throughout the season. "When you're dealing with stuff in your delivery that can be a tell, in spring training we had literally stations where you stand in front of a mirror, come set, see if you see anything and do it from all angles," Pagán said. "You check, 'is my glove higher? Is my glove lower? Am I flared? Am I cocked one way or the other with my wrist?' All those things, we're constantly looking at. If you're not, you're doing not just yourself but your team a disservice. "I think it's something you can iron out pretty quickly." Reds manager Terry Francona, in the dugout Sunday, will guide his team on a seven-game homestand leading up to the All-Star Break, beginning with the first of four games against the Miami Marlins on Monday, July 7. The Colorado Rockies come to GABP for three games following the Marlins series. While Burns ironed things out, the Reds (46-44) didn't as a team in the series finale. Advertisement Philadelphia starter and reigning NL Pitcher of the Month for June, Zack Wheeler, threw a complete game, one-hitter with 12 strikeouts and no walks on 108 pitches. The lone hit he conceded was a solo home run by Austin Hays, who was briefly with the Phillies in 2024 after a trade-deadline move. That poke was greeted with lusty boos from the grandstands and it allowed the Reds to lead, 1-0, but that didn't last. Tony Santillan saw Bryson Stott crank a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to break the 1-1 tie. That proved decisive offensively. "He (Santillan) has been so good and will be so good," Francona said. "He just left a fastball in the wrong place." Wheeler proved decisive, too, as he continued to mount his Cy Young Award campaign. After the eighth inning, Wheeler exited the game to an ovation, but no Phillies relievers started throwing in the bullpen. Wheeler then received a standing ovation when he came back out for the ninth inning, which turned into a raucous, stadium-wide countdown toward his complete-game victory. Advertisement "He's got all the weapons, and obviously, got the last weapon which is like the compete mode," Francona said. "You don't see too many guys go out there for the ninth inning anymore. That was impressive... We're being competitive. We have a chance, but that's a hard way to win." The Reds packed up and headed back for Cincinnati on Sunday having gone 2-4 over their six games in Boston and Philadelphia. The run into the MLB All-Star break starts with four games against the Miami Marlins and wraps up with three games against the Colorado Rockies. Cincinnati's probable starting pitchers for the Miami series starts Monday (7:10 p.m.) with Brady Singer (7-6, 4.36 ERA) and continues with Nick Martinez (6-8, 4.20 ERA), Andrew Abbott (7-1, 2.15 ERA), and Nick Lodolo (5-6, 3.58 ERA). Advertisement The Marlins' starters weren't announced as of Sunday night. Miami comes to Great American Ball Park having lost two of three to the Milwaukee Brewers. While the Reds' remaining games prior to the break are less glitzy than the recent series against the Yankees, San Diego Padres, Red Sox and Phillies, it's a critical stretch for Cincinnati. The club can potentially look to pad its record against two teams playing catchup in the playoff race. Colorado is 20-69 while Miami is 40-48. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Reds pitcher Chase Burns bounces back but Phillies take the series finale
Yahoo
09-07-2025
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Terry Francona: Hunter Greene passes bullpen session test, set for rehab assignment Tuesday
PHILADELPHIA − Hunter Greene is set to begin his rehab assignment Tuesday at Triple-A Louisville. Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona confirmed Sunday that Greene's Saturday side bullpen session at Citizens Bank Park went off without problems, meaning the plan to send him to Louisville to pitch Tuesday is on. Advertisement Reds Phillies Kyle Schwarber Alec Bohm, Kyle Schwarber homers power Phillies past Cincinnati Reds Greene, the Reds' Opening Day starter, had his side bullpen session prior to Saturday's Reds-Phillies game. That followed his 20-pitch session against live batters Wednesday at Fenway Park in Boston. Reds Opening Day starter Hunter Greene, who hasn't pitched since June 3 because of a groin strain, will begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Louisville on Tuesday. "If all goes according, we hope he'll go out (to Louisville) Tuesday and pitch and (Carson) Spiers will piggyback off him," Francona said. It's been over a month since Greene last started (June 3 vs. Milwaukee Brewers). Greene, an All-Star in 2024, is 4-3 with a 2.72 ERA in 11 starts this year. He has twice been added to the injured list in 2025 due to right groin strains. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Hunter Greene passes bullpen session test, still on track for rehab assignment
New York Times
08-07-2025
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- New York Times
Hunter Greene's setback shows why there's never too much pitching
CINCINNATI — Hunter Greene's return to the Cincinnati Reds' rotation won't be as soon as the team had hoped. Originally scheduled to begin a rehab assignment Tuesday at Triple-A Louisville, Greene felt tightness in his right groin and went for an MRI on Monday. Though the medical staff is still conferring, the immediate result is Greene won't begin his rehab assignment in the next couple of days as planned. Greene went on the injured list June 4 with a right groin strain. While on the IL, he went to California to get another opinion on his groin and received an epidural for back soreness. Advertisement 'I'm not going to make my start tomorrow,' Greene said before Monday's 5-1 Reds loss to the Miami Marlins. 'I felt a little tightness, so it doesn't make sense to go pitch when I still have a little bit of tightness.' Greene said the tightness was 'in the same area.' A team official confirmed that it is his right groin. Reds manager Terry Francona said the team was 'really pleased' with what it saw on the MRI. 'I think there's not a lot of confidence there yet, at times I think it feels fatigued,' Francona said after Monday's game. 'We want to do the right thing. Sometimes it's very difficult — that's why we got the MRI, because you ask someone to go out there and let it loose and throw it 100 mph, you don't want them worrying about something. So we're going to take some steps to try to give him a little more time so that when he does go out, he's raring to go.' The Reds don't know exactly when Greene will resume his rehab. After visiting doctors in California last month, Greene rehabbed at the team's facility in Arizona before returning to the club last week in Boston, where he threw to live batters Wednesday. He threw a bullpen Sunday in Philadelphia. For several weeks, the Reds had expected Greene back 'around the All-Star break,' which could've been on either end of next week's break. Greene's return will now surely be after the All-Star Game in Atlanta. A year ago, Greene was pitching in his first All-Star Game. He had his best season yet in 2024, going 9-5 with a 2.75 ERA in 26 starts, but missed a month in the second half with right elbow soreness. The 25-year-old has made at least one trip to the IL in each of his four big-league seasons. Greene was off to a strong start in 2025. After making his second Opening Day start, Greene was 4-3 with a 2.72 ERA in 11 starts before going on the IL. Advertisement The Reds are 16-13 since Greene's been on the injured list. Greene was initially replaced in the team's rotation by veteran left-hander Wade Miley. Miley made a pair of starts before landing on the IL himself. The Reds used an opener before calling up top prospect Chase Burns in late June. Burns has made three starts — one good, one not good and one in the middle — and will stay in the rotation for the foreseeable future. The hope was that the Reds could feature a rotation with Greene, Burns, Andrew Abbott, Nick Lodolo and either Nick Martinez or Brady Singer. Martinez, who accepted the one-year qualifying offer last offseason, would also be perhaps the team's best trade piece at the upcoming trade deadline. Martinez's versatility and willingness to move between the rotation and bullpen are not only unusual but also make him an attractive addition to any team searching for either rotation or bullpen help — or a pitcher who can help in the rotation for the rest of the season and in the bullpen in the postseason. The Reds, however, still need someone like Martinez as well. Burns, 22, has thrown 76 innings between the majors and minors this season. He threw 80 1/3 innings as a freshman at Tennessee, 72 as a sophomore. Burns threw 100 innings for Wake Forest last season but didn't throw in a competitive game from June 1 of last year until March 6, when he threw an inning in a spring training game. The Reds will monitor Burns' innings and could move him into the bullpen at some point. In 2008, the Tampa Bay Rays brought their first-round pick from the year before, lefty David Price, up the next year after he was drafted. As the Reds did with Burns and 2023 first-rounder Rhett Lowder, the Rays didn't have Price pitch after a long college season following the draft. The top pick in the 2007 draft, Price threw 113 1/3 innings as a junior at Vanderbilt while playing for current Reds pitching coach Derek Johnson. Price, like Burns, pitched at three minor-league levels before making his big-league debut. Advertisement He pitched a total of 129 1/3 innings between the minors and majors, starting exclusively in the minors while making just one start in the big leagues in 2008. Price pitched out of the bullpen in the playoffs that year, appearing in five games in the postseason, with a win and a save against Francona's Boston Red Sox before pitching two games in the World Series. Before the season, the Reds showed their desire to have a deeper rotation, not only giving Martinez a qualifying offer but also, after Martinez accepted it, they traded for Singer. The team's depth has helped it deal with injuries to not only Greene but also Abbott at the start of the season, as well as Lowder and Carson Spiers. Spiers, who went on the IL with a right shoulder impingement in April, is scheduled to pitch four innings for Louisville on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. Lowder, the seventh pick in the 2023 draft, started the season on the injured list with a right forearm strain and made four rehab appearances in May before suffering an oblique injury. June 4, the Reds moved Lowder to the 60-day IL. It's easy to dream of a Greene, Abbott, Burns, Lowder, Lodolo rotation — all Reds draft picks, all but Abbott first-rounders — but a look at just about any roster in baseball shows how difficult it is to count on five pitchers to make every start. The Reds nearly accomplished that feat in 2012 when their five pitchers combined to make 161 starts in the regular season, only to watch their ace, Johnny Cueto, leave in the first inning of the playoffs with an injury. Even with the injuries to Greene, Abbott, Lowder and Spiers, the Reds' top five starters — Lodolo, Martinez, Singer, Abbott and Greene — have accounted for 86 percent of the team's starts, the highest percentage for the Reds since 2021, when the team's top five starters made 88 percent of the starts. Last season, the Reds' top five starters made 66 percent of the team's starts, and in 2022, that number was down to 62 percent. Teams will want pitching, and the Reds could be tempted to move someone such as Martinez or Singer for pitching-starved teams to get offensive help, but no team has ever had too much pitching. And though a lack of offense can hold a team back, a lack of pitching can stop it completely. Greene should come back this season and maybe even by the end of the month, but the Reds can't afford to gamble on his — or any one of their starters' — being enough to make it through the season with hopes of playing into October. (Top photo of Hunter Greene in June: Dylan Buell / Getty Images)
Hamilton Spectator
08-07-2025
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- Hamilton Spectator
Reds ace Hunter Greene reports tightness in his groin and won't start his rehab assignment yet
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds have delayed the start of a rehabilitation assignment for ace Hunter Greene due to tightness in his strained right groin. Manager Terry Francona said Monday before the Reds began a three-game series against Miami that Greene would undergo another MRI exam 'out of an abundance of caution.' Greene had been scheduled to pitch for Triple-A Louisville on Tuesday, but that was put on hold after the discomfort arose following a bullpen session on Sunday. The right-hander, who's on his second injured list stint because of the muscle strain, told reporters he was feeling strong before the setback but will take his status 'day by day.' After the injury first popped up during a start on May 7, Greene returned after the minimum 15-day stay on the IL and made three starts before being pulled early from the last one on June 3 . The Reds were aiming to have Greene back right after the All-Star break, but the timetable for his return is now less clear. Greene, who was the second overall pick in the 2017 draft, was well on his way before the injury to a second straight All-Star Game selection by posting a 2.72 ERA with 73 strikeouts in 59 2/3 innings over 11 starts. ___ AP MLB:
