2026 Season · KC Roster
Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati, OH — opened 2003 · 43,500 seats. 5× champions · last 1990.
Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Cincinnati Reds from profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.
MLB players who spent their entire encyclopedia-attributed career with the Cincinnati Reds — ranked by seasons of service. Tenure is the span the corpus attributes.
MLB players who wore the Cincinnati Reds crest along the way but played for three or more franchises in all — the well-traveled careers this club was one chapter of. The count is distinct canonical franchises.
Every position room Cincinnati Reds has passed down, steadiest first. The SS room is their most stable — 9 holders across 143 years, a new one every 9 on average.
Four franchise-defining careers: VAL weighted by attributed tenure share, with a bounded bump for verified Hall of Fame and recorded award evidence.
556 player-season slots overlap another club's recorded span and are credited to neither (15.8% of considered span evidence).
Monument Timeline — who held it, season by season
1876–2026 · 8 handoffs
The holder in a season is the player with the most accumulated era-adjusted value (VAL) across attributed franchise seasons through that year — whole seasons only, never a depth-chart claim. A claim needs 3+ attributed seasons; unsettled through 1877. Relocated eras carry forward with the franchise.
Most prominent 8 of 1044 shown · all 1044 P →
Most prominent 8 of 208 shown · all 208 C →
Most prominent 8 of 111 shown · all 111 1B →
Most prominent 8 of 124 shown · all 124 2B →
Most prominent 8 of 121 shown · all 121 3B →
Most prominent 8 of 124 shown · all 124 SS →
Most prominent 8 of 498 shown · all 498 OF →
Most prominent 8 of 12 shown · all 12 DH →
Most prominent 8 of 9 shown · all 9 PH →
Stadium, market-population, title and handle data are curated public facts (Wikipedia/Census/official league facts). Fan Interest, Barometer and reach tier are transparently derived from those facts — weighted (market 0.4, venue 0.2, titles 0.25, heritage 0.15), min-max within MLB — derived structural proxy, not a survey. No fan survey, sentiment scrape, or follower count is used.
+1 more room with a shorter average hold.
Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1876–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.
+427 more one-club men with the franchise.
+1,327 more well-traveled players who wore the crest.
150 seasons — roster, team totals and best players by VAL for each.
Best league-relative tenures in Cincinnati Reds history — OPS+ / ERA+ vs each season's own league (100 = average), counting only seasons with the club. Park-unadjusted.
Hitters · OPS+
Pitchers · ERA+