Chase Burns Expectations for Cincinnati Reds in 2025 | Reds Top MLB Draft Pick

Chase Burns Expectations for Cincinnati Reds in 2025 | Reds Top MLB Draft Pick

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Get to know No. 2 Draft pick Chase Burns
July 14th, 2024
Jason Foster

Chase Burns boasts a triple-digit fastball and an elite slider, both of which have the possibility to play at the Major League level. Though the raw talent is clear, questions about his MLB potential tempered his Draft stock. But after a transfer and some changes to his mechanics, he was selected No. 2 overall in the 2024 Draft by the Reds. Here’s what you need to know about the hard-throwing Wake Forest junior.

FAST FACTS
Position: RHP
Ht/Wt: 6-foot-3, 210 lbs.
B/T: Right/right
DOB: Jan. 16, 2003
College: Wake Forest
High school: Beech High School (Hendersonville, Tenn.)
Born: Naples, Italy
MLB Pipeline ranking: No. 6
MLB Draft selection: No. 2 overall (Reds)

Not his first rodeo
Burns has already been drafted once. He went to the Padres in the 20th round out of high school in 2021 after a senior year in which he went 6-0 with an 0.50 ERA and 131 strikeouts in just 56 1/3 innings. Though his skill set drew some first-round interest, his decision to play college ball at Tennessee caused him to fall to the later rounds.

Burns was a standout member of the Volunteers’ rotation as a freshman, going 8-2 with a 2.91 ERA and earning several national honors. But he struggled in his sophomore season in 2023, pitching to a 6.10 ERA in eight starts, prompting a move to the bullpen as a long reliever. But it was there that he became a dominant presence.

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Dominance, transfer, more dominance
As a member of Tennessee’s bullpen, Burns turned his season around and finished with 114 strikeouts in 72 innings. The relief stint lowered that 6.10 ERA to 4.25 by the end of the season.

Though Burns helped lead Tennessee to the 2023 College World Series and ranked third in NCAA Division I with a strikeout rate of 14.3 per nine innings, he felt he had plateaued in Knoxville and transferred to Wake Forest for the 2024 season. The change of scenery has paid dividends.

After some tweaks to his delivery, Burns again became a top collegiate pitcher as a member of Wake’s rotation. In a March 9 start against Duke, Burns struck out a career-high 14 batters across six innings, allowing just two hits and a run. At one point, he fanned seven straight.

“I think his 95th pitch was 100 miles an hour,” Wake Forest head coach Tom Walter said afterward, before making a comparison to the top two pitchers taken in the 2023 Draft. “I don’t know what else to say. That’s as good an outing when we needed it as I’ve ever seen. I mean, that was certainly Paul Skenes and Rhett Lowder-esque. That was really, really special.”

On the year, Burns led all Division I pitchers with 191 strikeouts. What’s more, he had racked up that total in only 100 innings, good for a K/9 rate of 17.2.