If the Cincinnati Reds play the way they played last night for most of the rest of the 2025 season, Nick Martinez is going to end up being a key piece for their run to the playoffs.
How the Reds try to manage the innings on Chase Burns’ arm and how quickly they insert Hunter Greene back into the starting rotation will be eased significantly by the versatility of Martinez, who is both willing and able to throw an inning or four here and make a 100 pitch start just a couple of days later. In so many ways, he’s exactly what can ‘unlock’ an entire Cincinnati pitching staff.