Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo will make his debut as a Cincinnati Reds' radio analyst for the upcoming series in Cleveland, joining Tommy Thrall in the broadcast booth for the team's first on-site road broadcasts since 2019, the Reds Radio Network announced Wednesday via Twitter.
Arroyo spent nine of his 16 big-league seasons with the Reds, posting a 108-100 record and 4.18 ERA in 279 starts for Cincinnati. Arroyo received the Johnny Vander Meer Award as the Reds' Most Outstanding Pitcher three times (2006, 2009, 2010) and won the team's Joe Nuxhall Good Guy Award (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012) four times.
In addition, the Florence Y'alls announced Wednesday that the Bronson Arroyo Band will perform postgame music on May 30 at UC Health Stadium:
Last month, Arroyo serenaded Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler during the Dodgers' ring ceremony, which also featured former Moeller High School standout and Reds Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr.
Last May, Arroyo offered candid remarks about the disconnect between a baseball team's front office and its clubhouse.
"I've said it for years. It's like being in fourth grade and there's just this big wall between you and the principal of the school," Arroyo said on 700 WLW. "And you don't know anything about the guy - you're just a little scared of him, right? When he walks through the room. And in baseball, there's been these layers to where you don't know anything about ... the guys inside the locker room know everything about the players. I'm with them every day. And not one time in my career did a general manager ever come to me and say, 'Hey, Bronson, let me ask you a question: If I'm gonna sign a guy for $100 million, would you give the money to Johnny Cueto or would you give it to Homer Bailey?' That question was never asked of me. I shower with these guys every day. I party with them at night. I play music in my hotel room with them. And I know them intimately. And the (general manager) never asked the question. There's this dividing line between what goes on in the locker room and what goes on in the front office. And sometimes there's no transparency."
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