GOODYEAR, Arizona − Four days until Cactus League play starts for the Cincinnati Reds, and there's plenty of action around the club's Player Development Complex in Goodyear. Preparations for 2025 are underway,

Reds manager Terry Francona doesn’t see the point of asking his veteran players to utilize the experimental ABS system during spring training.

Reds manager Terry Francona says he wants Elly De La Cruz to be "the best player in baseball on the best team in baseball."

Joe Danneman sits down with the Reds new manager on the first full day of spring training to talk about the upcoming season. The Reds first day of full team practice is in the books in Goodyear, Arizona.

Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona was in the dugout running a game for the first time in 510 days as he and the Reds opened Cactus League play.

The Reds are one of a handful of teams with an automatic ball-strike system in spring training, but their manager won’t let them use it.

New Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona plans to opt out of elective participation in the automated ball-strike challenge trial during spring training, but he is still willing to let the organization’s minor league players get accustomed to the system ABS is a system that is being tried out at 13 ballparks in spring training,

MLB is rolling out yet another experiment this spring training. The post Terry Francona & Craig Counsell “Thumbing Their Nose at the League,” Claims Insider appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Several of the Reds minor leaguers have prior experience with the ABS challenge system, which, along with full ABS (all balls and strikes automated) was tested at the Double and Triple-A levels in '23 and '24. By the end of '24, full ABS was dropped in favor of the happy middle ground, the ABS challenge system.

Five parks in Arizona and eight in Florida have been fitted with the ABS challenge system technology this spring.