Six more days until we ge the Reds season underway. Its a little longer for the minor leaguers, but it should be very nice to be able to sit down and watch some Reds games in HD while enjoying a Coke. The Reds lost 8-1 yesterday, but here is how the prospects performed:
- Juan Francisco went 0-2 with a strikeout.
- Miguel Rojas went 0-1 with a strikeout.
- Ruben Medina pitched 0.1 innings with a walk.
- Matt Maloney allowed 3 runs in 1 inning of work, including 2 HR’s.
Jason Stella over at BatsBaseball.com has up an article on Zack Cozart and his rise through the system.
Mark Sheldon has an article up on Reds.com about Logan Ondrusek and the great spring that he has had. He may not get a chance to break with the Reds because of how the bullpen is set up, but if he isn’t the first guy they call up I would be downright shocked.
Bats shut out Albuquerque (LAD) 3-0. Tom Cochran piched 4 innings and gave up 0 hits, while striking out 4. Danny Dorn (3-3) and Michael Griffin (1-4) each hit a solo HR. Yonder Alonso (1-4) added an RBI double. Lee Tabor closed the final 2 innings with 2 strikeouts, 1 hit, and 1 walk. Bats host Columbus on Tuesday in Goodyear.
C Trent stayed around for the minor league side of things again yesterday. He has up some great stuff over at CNati.com. In this article he has notes on Todd Frazier, Andrew Means, DD Gregorius, Devin Mesoraco and Aroldis Chapman. In this post he has notes up on Yonder Alonso, Devin Mesoraco (who will start in Lynchburg according to this article) and Todd Frazier. If you aren’t reading the stuff at CNati.com, you probably don’t care much about Cincinnati sports because no one does it better.
Right before I started writing this post, I finished up my last player page in the Reds Minor League Scouting Directory. Now over the next day or two I will be adding some finishing touches to the design and layout. With things mostly complete now, here are a few extra details. There are currently 166 players listed in the directory, although not all of them currently have scouting data. I will watch over 100 games this season and be adding scouting data and video to each page as I see the players through the season. Right now, my guess is that only about 40% of the players have scouting data listed and or video clips on their pages. This is going to be a subscriber portion of the website, though nothing will change from what I do on the free side daily. There will be a Database only price and a database + year end book price. This will go toward helping cover all travel expenses to and from the games throughout the year. Tomorrow I will provide a sample page to give an idea of what to expect.