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Spencer Steer has played just about everywhere across his college and professional careers. One place he has never played, though, is in CF.
On the same day that news broke that Matt McLain would be heading to the 10-day IL with a calf strain he picked up shagging balls in CF as a player who hadn’t played and CF since college, the Reds are going to roll out Steer as their CF in Friday’s series opener in Great American Ball Park against the Chicago Cubs.
That’s right!
Despite the Reds brass having touted Noelvi Marte’s athleticism and natural instincts as capable of playing some CF, Marte will instead start in RF on the night, with the decision to shoehorn Steer into CF the latest in a long, crumbling line of decisions made by the powers that be in Cincinnati. This all also coincides with the return of Ke’Bryan Hayes at 3B, so perhaps the front office is so convinced that Hayes’ defense is transformative at the hot corner that where anyone else plays defensively truly doesn’t matter.
That’s the headline, tonight, or at least the co-headline. The other is that Hunter Greene will make his second start since returning from elbow surgery with hopes that literally anything other than what happened in his first start is what we get to see.
First pitch against the Cubs is set for 7:10 PM ET. Starting lineups for both clubs are listed below.
Today’s Lineups
CUBS | REDS |
|---|---|
| Pete Crow-Armstrong – CF | Elly De La Cruz – SS |
| Alex Bregman – 3B | Sal Stewart – 1B |
| Michael Busch – 1B | Spencer Steer – CF |
| Seiya Suzuki – RF | JJ Bleday – LF |
| Ian Happ – LF | Eugenio Suarez – DH |
| Nico Hoerner – 2B | Tyler Stephenson – C |
| Michael Conforto – DH | Noelvi Marte – RF |
| Carson Kelly – C | Edwin Arroyo – 2B |
| Dansby Swanson – SS | Ke’Bryan Hayes – 3B |
| ***** Imanaga – LHP | Hunter Greene – RHP |
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