Pitchers and catchers are reporting for spring training this week, with several players who could spend time with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts headed to the Cincinnati Reds’ camp in Glendale, Arizona.
Major League Baseball teams begin their regular season in March; the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers are up first with a two-game series March 18-19 in Tokyo, with the openers for the Reds and other teams set for the following week. The Lookouts, who announced their 2025 coaching staff last month, get started the first week of April, along with the rest of the Southern League.
As baseball ramps up again, here are five intriguing Reds prospects you could see in a Lookouts uniform this year.
Chase Burns: The right-hander could follow a similar path to that of his former college rotation mate at Wake Forest, Rhett Lowder, who sailed through the minor leagues on the way to his Reds debut last August.
Burns was selected second overall by the Reds in 2024, coming off a college campaign in which he led the nation in strikeouts (191) and set the Demon Deacons’ single-season record. University of Tennessee fans are plenty familiar with Burns; he spent two seasons with the Volunteers, racking up 217 strikeouts in 152 1/3 innings across 2022-23, before transferring to Wake Forest.