The Cincinnati Reds are getting ever closer to their spring training schedule coming to an end and today they will play their second to last game in Arizona before heading back east to Ohio. This afternoon they will take on the San Diego Padres in a road contest with first pitch scheduled for 4:10pm ET.

Reds and Padres Lineups

	Reds		Padres
1	Jake Fraley	DH	Fernando Tatis Jr.	RF
2	Santiago Espinal	SS	Luis Arraez	1B
3	Jacob Hurtubise	LF	Manny Machado	3B
4	Christian Encarnacion-Strand	1B	Jackson Merrill	CF
5	Blake Dunn	CF	Xander Bogaerts	SS
6	Stuart Fairchild	RF	Jake Cronenworth	2B
7	Austin Wynns	C	Yuli Gurriel	DH
8	Davis Wendzel	3B	Brandon Lockridge	LF
9	Francisco Urbaez	2B	Martin Maldonado	C
10	Andrew Abbott	LHP	Dylan Cease	RHP

Reserve players on today’s Reds roster

As of 3:05pm ET the Reds have not shared the game notes or travel roster for today’s game. If those are provided before the start of the game I will update this to include who is expected to pitch after Abbott as well as who is on the roster for the game.

Where to watch/listen/follow the game

Today’s game will be available on MLB.tv and it is one of the FREE games of the day. You will also be able to watch the game on MLB Network. Both versions will be the San Diego Padres broadcast. If you are looking to listen to the game you can tune your radio to 700 WLW. If you’re looking to follow along on gameday, here is your link for that.

News and Notes

Spencer Steer to begin the year on the injured list

Terry Francona announced today that Spencer Steer wasn’t going to be ready in time to begin the season. After a brief period of time of hope that he could return for Opening Day after getting a cortisone shot, they decided that it wasn’t going to work as he hadn’t had an at-bat in a game since February 27th. Mark Sheldon of Reds.com has some more details for you here.

Fangraphs isn’t too high on the Reds outfield

This weekend the crew at Fangraphs has wrapped up positional rankings for each team. The Cincinnati Reds outfield crew did not exactly stack up well to the rest of the league. The left field group ranked 25th with much of that time going to Austin Hays and Spencer Steer. In center the time goes mostly to TJ Friedl and Cincinnati comes in ranked 26th on that list. Over in right field there’s a bit more of a split with Jake Fraley, Stuart Fairchild and a handful of others – but the results didn’t change much as that group came in at 27th.

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