Trade Deadline winds are blowing stronger with moves starting to happen around Major League Baseball the past couple of days. For the Reds, the time is ripe for catching a breeze to both stay in the postseason hunt and position themselves for dealing before Thursday.

The Cincinnati Reds (53-50), now at two games back of the third National League Wild Card spot entering play of July 25, haven't made a move yet. It remains to be seen if and how the Reds might involve themselves in the trade-deadline activity.

Six games were played on Friday for the Cincinnati Reds Minor League affiliates. Here is how their top prospects performed: Hector Rodriguez went 3-4 with a double, a walk, a run scored and a RBI. The Reds number 10-ranked prospect is batting .458 with a 1.164OPS since his promotion to Triple-A.

Nick Lodolo went the distance and kept the Cincinnati Reds as the only team in the majors that hasn’t been swept this season.

This was not a playoff team in October. Or a contender in September. This was the bad-bullpen, meh-lineup Nationals playing for nothing in July.

The Cincinnati Reds released 24-year-old minor league pitcher Gabriel Aguilera on Friday. Aguilera impressed in 2024, making 19 starts and appearing in 25 games across Low-A Daytona and High-A Dayton with an ERA of 3.55. He had 70 strikeouts over 99 innings.