Like his prior stay, Chase Burns wasn't bound long for Double-A.
MLB's No. 11 prospect was promoted to Triple-A Louisville on Sunday, MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo confirmed. Burns, the No. 3 right-handed pitching prospect, posted a 1.29 ERA, 0.71 WHIP and 11.79 K/9 in 42 innings for Double-A Chattanooga.
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Bursting onto the scene for the first time as a pro in 2025, the second overall Draft selection in 2024 by the Reds notched 20 strikeouts in 11 2/3 innings for High-A Dayton before getting a quick bump to the Lookouts in late April.
Burns appeared in over double the amount of starts for Chattanooga and sported even better numbers. Equipped with a 70-grade slider and 65-grade fastball, the righty fanned seven or more batters in five of his last seven starts. Burns recorded a career-high 10 K's on May 25, when he yielded one run across five frames.
Cincinnati took Wake Forest products in the first round in back-to-back years. Burns followed Rhett Lowder (MLB No. 28), although they never played together for the Demon Deacons. Lowder debuted in the Major Leagues last August, just over a year after being drafted by the Reds seventh overall. Burns might be on an even faster track to The Show, receiving his Triple-A promotion roughly two months before Lowder's in 2024.