Spring Game Thread: Cleveland Guardians vs Cincinnati Reds

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The Cincinnati Reds are taking the field this afternoon in Arizona for the last time this year. They will play one more game on Tuesday in Dayton to wrap up their spring training schedule. Today they finish things up in Goodyear against their facility mates, the Cleveland Guardians, with a 3:05pm ET scheduled first pitch.

Reserve players on today’s Reds roster

There are still no game notes or travel roster from the Reds for today’s game. Yesterday’s game notes had these pitchers listed for today’s game as being scheduled to pitch: Alexis Diaz, Ian Gibaut, Sam Moll, and Joe La Sorsa.

Where to watch/listen/follow the game

There is no televised broadcast for today’s game. If you are looking to listen to the game you can tune your radio to 700 WLW. If you’re looking to follow along on gameday, here is your link for that.

News and Notes

Alexis Diaz to the injured list

The Reds closer is going to miss the start of the season with a hamstring injury. If the team doesn’t go outside of the organization to bring any other pitchers in between now and Opening Day, the bullpen is now settled to begin the year. We’ve got all of those details here.

Two more roster cuts

Just before the announcement of the Diaz move, the Reds announced they had sent Wade Miley and Will Banfield to minor league camp in the latest round of roster cuts. Miley was never going to make the team as he recovers from Tommy John surgery. Banfield was competing for the backup catchers job to begin the season, but hitting .150 probably led to the team deciding to go with Austin Wynns.

Expecting too much from the manager

It would seem that Mike Petriello of MLB.com has been reading the comments section here at Redleg Nation since October.

I have been on the “???? Francona but lord are people expecting him to singlehandedly add 10 wins by himself” train all winter and with Díaz to the IL, the Cincinnati bullpen is .. not what you want

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— Mike Petriello (@mikepetriello.bsky.social) March 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM