Chase Burns has been, quite simply, one of the best pitchers on the planet so far in 2026. Through 102.2 IP, he has struck out 118 against just 37 walks, pitching to a 2.54 ERA and 1.11 WHIP for the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n
That was more than enough for him to earn his way onto the All Star Game roster for the National League, and the fact that he last pitched on Wednesday meant that he\u2019d likely be more than just a figurehead in the dugout there – he\u2019d actually be rested enough to pitch.<\/p>\n
Turns out that won\u2019t actually happen, however. As MLB.com\u2019s Mark Sheldon relayed on Saturday afternoon, the Reds say Burns won\u2019t pitch after all. Los Angeles Dodgers starter Justin Wrobleski has been named as his replacement for the Midsummer Classic.<\/p>\n
Burns threw a career-high 106 pitches against the Philadelphia Phillies the last time out, and the Reds already had announced he\u2019d be 5th out of the gate in the season\u2019s second half, per WLWT\u2019s Charlie Clifford. So, there\u2019s hope that the Reds are simply doing everything they can to give their stud a bit of a break after setting an unsustainable pace of IP through the season\u2019s first half.<\/p>\n
With the return of Hunter Greene and the presence of Rhett Lowder, now in the bullpen, the Reds are going to have to begin to manage the pitches and innings on Burns\u2019 prized right arm if he\u2019s to still be available in any capacity down the stretch. This sure seems to be an easy way to buy him roughly two weeks off in the middle of the year, and it\u2019s going to have positive repercussions down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Burns has been, quite simply, one of the best pitchers on the planet so far in 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,29089,4259,4,536],"class_list":["post-749126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnati-reds-news","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-mlb","tag-reds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116902888971006909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749126","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=749126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}