The Cincinnati Reds are schedule to report to Goodyear, Arizona for spring training in exactly three weeks. 21 days until we get to wait a few more weeks for actual practice baseball, folks! The full schedules of when both Grapefruit League and Cactus League squads are expected to report was announced last week, and the first full-squad workout for the Reds is slated for Monday, February 19th.
That’s all well and good, but is more administrative than anything. As we all know, folks who aren’t the first ones in line on Day One still have ample chance to break camp with the big league club, and that’s of particular importance in the case of rookie Noelvi Marte - he of the hamstring injury during winter ball that shut him down for the rest of the offseason.