Of the 2149 baseballers who have played at all in the minor leagues since the start of the 2022 season, only Moisés Gómez and Hunter Goodman sit higher on the home run leaderboard that Chrisitan Encarnacion-Strand. The slugging Cincinnati Reds prospect cared not which uniform he wore or which stadiums in which he mashed, either, as he had stops at each of A+, AA, and AAA within the Minnesota Twins organization in that time before tackling both highest levels within the Reds farm system.
After 20 homers with AAA Louisville so far in 2023, it seems the Cincinnati Reds have finally seen enough.