Hunter Parks: Reds' Bullpen Star

0:00On April 26th, Hunter Parks is this year's surprise standout for the Reds, a right-handed pitcher flying under the radar. The 24-year-old just through two and two-thirds scoreless innings out of the bullpen for double-hatt nouga. In six games and ten innings this season, he hasn't given up a single run and already has 19 strikeouts. Drafted in the eighth round of the 2021 MLB draft out of Florence Darlington Technical College, Parks started as a starter button. Battled command issues, last season the Reds moved him to relief and it's paying off big time now. Fangrass even called for that switch back in 2024, praising his 95 mile per hour fastball and nasty breaking ball. They're right. He's turning heads as a strikeout machine. Shifting to other Reds action, Noel V. Martek, he's raking in Triple-A Louisville with a 4-17 average and 1.197 OPS since. His demotion. Standouts like Alexander Vargas at double A hitting 346, Jacob Friend crushing four

1:02homers in low A and Carlos Sanchez at three. 48 and high A are all heating up too. Keep watching these guys, they're building serious momentum across the system. That's the story for today, MLB News Today Driven by AI, I'm Corey with The Story.