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.

Before it was broken by Warren Spahn, the amiable Eppa Rixey held the record for the most wins by a southpaw with 266, 179 of which were won as a member of the Cincinnati Reds.

Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000, 101 years after he last played, Bid McPhee is a lot more than the answer to a trivia question of “Who is the last Second Baseman to play without a glove”.