Known for his physical strength, Ted Kluszweski famously had to cut the sleeves off of his uniform because they constricted his arms when he swung.  In 1953, “Big Klu” would enter a four year stretch where he blasted at least 35 Home Runs and collected 100 Runs Batted In, the best of which was his 1954 season where the slugger would win the Home Run and RBI Titles with 49 and 141 respectively and was the runner up for the National League MVP.  As a Red he would collect 251 Home Runs with a .302 Batting Average.

He would later be a Coach for CIncinnati, and his number 18 was retired by the team in 1998.  Kluszweski was also enshrined into Cincinnati's Hall of Fame in 1962.

In the late 1930s and early ’40s, Frank McCormick would emerge as one of the most productive players in MLB.  An All-Star every season from 1938 to 1944, McCormick would help propel the Reds to a World Series win in 1940, a season in which he led the National League in Hits for the third year in a row and would win the coveted MVP Award. 

While Jose Rijo finished under 100 Wins for his Cincinnati Reds career his role with the Reds cannot be measure solely by that statistic. 

Rijo surprisingly was only named an All-Star once, but the Dominican hurler would finish in the top five in ERA four times, was a one time National League Leader in WAR for Pitchers (1993) and would also be a one time leader in WHIP (1991) and in Strikeouts (1993).  Most notably, Rijo was named the World Series MVP when the Reds shocked the baseball world in a sweep over the heavily favored A’s going 2 and 0 in with an ERA of 0.59 in the Fall Classic.

A member of the Big Red Machine that terrorized the National League through the ’70s, Dave Concepcion provided decent hitting with more than above-average defense over his near 2,500 Games as a Cincinnati Red.   Concepcion never played a game in the Majors for anyone other than the Reds where he was named a nine-time All-Star and was a five-time Gold Glove recipient with seven top ten finishes in Defensive bWAR.  He would collect 2,326 Hits with 321 Stolen Bases over his career.

The Reds retired his number 13 in 2007, and the Shortstop entered the Reds Hall of Fame seven years prior.