Far more than a 20 Game winner in 1905, “Long” Bob Ewing was a master of the spitball (legal at the time) and had a three-year stint (1905-07) where he finished in the top five in bWAR for Pitchers.  Impressively, Ewing would also finish in the top ten in SO/BB six times and FIP six times.  As of this writing, Ewing is 27th all-time in FIP, and had a 108-113 Record for Cincinnati.

Ewing entered the Reds Hall of Fame in 2001.

In the 1890’s, Billy Rhines would have two three year runs with the Cincinnati Reds (1890-92 & 1895-97).  In each stint, he would win an Earned Run Average Title and WHIP Title.  Basically, Rhines had one excellent season in each of his stints as a Red and he is easily one of the better hurlers the team has ever had.  Those two years are enough to rank him here.

Overall as a Red, Rhines had a record of 96-79 with a 3.28 ERA.

Perhaps a strange entry considering his relatively low tenure as a Cincinnati Red, Cy Seymour put together one of the finest and undervalued seasons in the early 1900’s.

Come on now, You didn’t think we were finished talking about the “Big Red Machine” from the mid 70’s did you?