On the heels of shortstop Jose Barrero rocketing into the top third of Top 100 prospect lists everywhere in 2021, the Cincinnati Reds called him up and played him in CF, a position he’d never once played in a professional game before. That scenario was aided because Nick Senzel, himself once a universal Top 10 overall prospect who’d been moved from the infield to the outfield without any real experience there, was once again beset by an injury that kept him shelved for months.
Two examples neither make a trend nor form a firm conclusion, but those are two very recent examples of the Cincinnati Reds taking from their surplus of infield talent and attempting, even briefly, to shoehorn it into the heart of the outfield.