Brandon Williamson has looked the part so far this spring in Goodyear, the \u2018part\u2019 being a guy who was a former 2nd round draft pick and consensus Top 100 overall prospect. A full year off in 2025 while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery has apparently allowed his left arm – and left shoulder – to regain strength, and he\u2019s tapping back into velocity that he\u2019d not seen in years while eyeing a spot in the starting rotation of the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll get a chance to stake another claim for a spot on the Opening Day roster on Sunday afternoon, and will do so in familiar territory over in Peoria. That\u2019s because he\u2019ll be facing the Seattle Mariners, the club who originally drafted him back in 2019 before shipping him to Cincinnati alongside Jake Fraley and Justin Dunn in the deal that sent current Cincinnati slugger Eugenio Suarez and Jesse Winker the other way back in 2022.<\/p>\n
Sharing the mound with Williamson today will also be a former teammate of his, as George Kirby was Seattle\u2019s 1st round pick back in the same draft where they took Williamson in the 2nd.<\/p>\n
Sadly, there\u2019s no TV feed for this one, so you\u2019ll have to lean on Gameday and 700 WLW\u2019s radio coverage to follow along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Williamson has looked the part so far this spring in Goodyear, the \u2018part\u2019 being a guy who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,79233,4259,4,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-626210","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-cincinnati-reds-game-information","12":"tag-cincinnatireds","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-reds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116237988377897718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626210","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=626210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}