RedsXtra: Why Rece Hinds could be the next star Cincinnati Reds prospect

PHOENIX – Rece Hinds has just 10 plate appearances in his minor-league career, but the stories about power are legendary.

During the instructional league last fall, he broke his bat swinging at a 95-mph fastball and the ball traveled 375 feet for a home run. Yes, a homer on a broken bat.

He had another instructional league game, against Los Angeles Dodgers minor leaguers, where he pulled a homer about 415 feet to left-center. Then later in the same game, he crushed an opposite-field homer to right field that went about halfway up on the tall netting that protects the street behind the field.

Hinds hit with exit velocities as high as 117 mph in the fall, according to Baseball America. For…