Cincinnati Reds Information
The 2002-2003 season brought many changes to the Cincinnati Reds. The team moved from Cinergy Field to the brand new Great American Ballpark. The team also introduced their new mascot, which is named Gapper.
In 2006, a new era in Cincinnati Reds baseball started as fruit and vegetable wholesaler Robert Castellini took over as the team's owner, assuming control of the club from Lindner. He promptly fired GM Dan O'Brien. Wayne Krivsky was appointed as the GM of the Cincinnati Reds after a protracted search. Krivsky traded young outfielder Wily Mo Peña to the Red Sox for pitcher Bronson Arroyo, who made his 1st start in a Cincinnati Reds uniform in early April 2006. He not only earned the victory for the team, but also led off the 3rd inning with his 1st career home run. Wayne Krivsky also gave fans hope with mid-season trades that bolstered the bullpen, trading for Guardado and then trading OUT Austin Kearns, shortstop Felipe Lopez, and Ryan Wagner to the Nationals for relievers Bill Bray and Gary Majewski, shortstop Royce Clayton, and 2 prospects.
The Cincinnati Reds revealed their new uniforms at the end of December 2006. The team's home caps returned to red color with a white wishbone C, which is lightly outlined in black. Caps with red crowns and black bill are now the new road caps. The team's sleeveless jerseys were changed to more traditional shirts. The numbers and the letters for the Cincinnati Reds players' names on the backs of the jerseys were changed to an early-1900s style typeface. The alternate jersey emblem as well as the logo of the club was replaced by the mustachioed Mr. Red from '56.
The Reds were the 1st Major League Baseball team to go Carbon Neutral. The emissions associated with Opening Day 2007 were offset with Verified Emission Reductions, VERs, with Carbon Solutions Group. The Cincinnati Reds also offset all emissions associated with the home game on Earth Day, April 22 2007 vs. the Philadelphia Phillies.