When the Arizona Complex League came to an end in late July it was just the end of the official season for the teams in Arizona. Most (but not all) of the teams out there continued to play unofficial games against one another several times a week in what they call the bridge season. It’s more of a spring training like environment than a regular season one, though.
One thing the season officially ending did, though, was allow the Cincinnati Reds to bring several players to the US from their Dominican Republic complex to get experience against a higher level before next year. Roster size limits exist in the US, but once the season was over the organization could bring guys stateside while technically leaving those players on the DSL roster where there is not a roster size limit – allowing the Reds to not have to release players in order to bring some guys in.
Cincinnati initially brought infielders Naibel Mariano and Hansel Jimenez, catcher Jirvin Morillo, and outfielder Pablo Nunez over to join the team in Goodyear. The plan was to also bring outfielder Adolfo Sanchez in but he suffered a knee injury right around the time this was all going to happen and he remained in the Dominican Republic. Sanchez is now in Arizona after spending a few weeks healing up.
Sanchez has been one of the most improved players in the organization in 2025 when simply comparing stats from 2024 to 2025. This season he played in 36 games with the DSL Reds and hit .339/.474/.504 with 24 walks and 21 strikeouts in 154 plate appearances. He showed a small improvement in his power output compared to 2024 and his walk rate was nearly identical. But he struck out 34% of the time he stepped to the plate in 2024 and hit just .216 as a result of his lack of contact. In the offseason he made mechanical changes and they paid off in a big way as he cut his strikeout rate to 13.6% in 2025. All of that extra contact allowed him to hit for a much higher average.
Dalvin Rosario released
While we live in a time when it seems everyone throws hard and hitting triple-digits doesn’t pop like it once did, it’s still somewhat rare when guys do throw 100 MPH. And back in early April an unknown Dalvin Rosario did just that for Single-A Daytona. It was just his second game in the organization and before that week the last time he had pitched in affiliated ball was in July of 2021 when he was in rookie ball for the Phillies and was throwing in the 90-92 MPH range. He had been pitching in a semi-pro league in the Dominican Republic between then and apparently found a whole bunch of velocity while doing so.
A little more than a week later, though, he injured himself and headed to the injured list with the Tortugas. He missed nearly three months with an unspecified “lower body injury” before returning on July 12th for a rehab game in Arizona. That was the only game he pitched in out in the complex league, which still had two weeks of baseball games remaining after that outing. Cincinnati, in need of a roster spot in the organization, released Rosario this week.