{"id":530820,"date":"2026-01-21T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530820\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:44:12","slug":"the-lod-star-baseball-prospectus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530820\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lod&#8217; Star | Baseball Prospectus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/USATSI_27224108_168392250_lowres-1000x714.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: \u00a9 Sam Greene\/The Enquirer \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/subscriptions\/?utm_source=site&amp;utm_medium=button&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe\" class=\"subscribe-cta btn btn-full-width\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Baseball Prospectus<\/a>If the Reds rotation is going to take them to the playoffs, Nick Lodolo is going to play a big part.<br \/>\n\t\tFull access to this article is for Premium Baseball Prospectus subscribers.<br \/>\n\tSign up today to get access to insightful analysis for the discerning baseball fan.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/membership-account\/membership-checkout\/?level=3\" class=\"btn btn-paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super-Premium &#8211; $99.95 \/ year<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/membership-account\/membership-checkout\/?level=2\" class=\"btn btn-paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premium &#8211; $74.95 \/ year<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/membership-account\/membership-checkout\/?level=4\" class=\"btn btn-paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premium Monthly &#8211; $19.95 \/ month<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/login?redirect=https:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/news\/article\/104139\/rubbing-mud-the-mother-lod-nick-lodolo-cincinnati-reds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: \u00a9 Sam Greene\/The Enquirer \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Subscribe to Baseball ProspectusIf the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,4,1331,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-530820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-cincinnatireds","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-nick-lodolo","14":"tag-reds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115933156313880132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}