‘Up and down’ is perhaps the easiest way to describe Hunter Greene’s 2023 season for the Cincinnati Reds. He was poked around pretty good in his first start of the year against the then-upstart Pittsburgh Pirates, and threw a clunker at Coors Field against Colorado in early May. He flashed brilliance in fanning 10 Atlanta Braves in late April, however, just days before inking a contract that could pay him up to $95 million over its life to be the next face of the Reds franchise altogether.
A hip injury later stifled him before it sent him to the 60-day IL, and after a bumpy return from that in August, he landed on the COVID IL, too.