Season Preview
2020
The Hot CORNER
This is part five of a nine-part series previewing the 2020 Dragons. Players listed here are candidates for positions on the 25-man Dragons season-opening roster. Minor League rosters have not yet been assigned. While the timeline to the start of our season is unknown at this point, when play resumes, the players in these previews will compete for roster positions with the Dragons.
Rece Hinds, like potential Dragons infielder Tyler Callihan, was one of the top high school players in the nation in the 2019 draft class. If he begins the 2020 season with the Dragons, he would be one of the top prospects on the team. Just like Callihan, the questions regarding Hinds’ assignment to the Dragons in 2020 relate not to his ability level, but to his youth and readiness to face Midwest League pitchers, many of whom have significant college experience. Even more than Callihan, who played professionally for 10 weeks last summer in the Reds system after his high school graduation, Hinds would be on a steep learning curve. Injuries limited Hinds to just three games and eight at-bats with Greeneville in the Reds organization last summer after he turned pro. Hinds was the Reds second round draft pick in 2019, taken with the Reds next selection after they chose pitcher Nick Lodolo out of Texas Christian University. Hinds was a power-hitting infielder at IMG Academy in Florida and was 18 years old when he was signed by the Reds. Hinds is known for massive home run blasts and off-the-charts power. In 2018, both Hinds and Callihan were among eight high school players in the country to be invited to the Home Run Derby at the Major League AllStar Game at Nationals Park. It would be interesting for Dragons fans DAY TON
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