Cincinnati’s next wave just got louder, and the timing is kind of perfect.
Reds fans have heard “the future is bright” for a while now, even when the present hasn’t always felt that way. So it hits a little different when ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel drops a birth-year ranking of the best 16-to-25 talent in baseball and Cincinnati shows up with two names in the top 10 of the same age group: right-hander Chase Burns and infielder Sal Stewart.