Tuesday news and notes

Lots of little notes today.

Redleg Nation has an interview up with Devin Mesoraco. He talks about last season, his offseason and more. Go give it a listen. It is just over 22 minutes long.

Scott McKinney over at Royals Review has up a very interesting study on Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospect Lists from 1990-2003. He looks at the success and failure rates of the top prospects in baseball over that time. One of the biggest things that stand out from a Reds point of view is that over that time, they had one of the biggest bust rates in baseball at 84.4%, which is well over the MLB wide 70% bust rate. I think there is one reason that the rate is so high, and that is Jim Bowdens love of toolsy type players. While there is nothing wrong at all with a toolsy player, it seemed that Bowden often found the guys with the tools, but without the skills. Anyways, go read the entire article,  there are some interesting things in there.

Bullpen Banter is breaking down their Top 100 Prospects and Billy Hamilton comes in right at #100. I think they have this ranking pretty much on track. They have their doubts, but also realize that he has the tools to make the strides moving forward to being a successful Major Leaguer. Speaking of Billy Hamilton, he is down in Arizona already. Jamie Ramsey shared this picture via Twitter.

Ben Badler addressed Ronald Torreyes in a tweet yesterday. Here is what he had to say:

Built like a jockey, but very legit RT @DanielRathman Is Ronald Torreyes a legitimate prospect for the Reds, or flukish breakout in VSL/AZL?

Henry Rodriguez was named to the Caribbean Series All Star team at shortstop. He hit .429 for Venezuela in the series.

The CAIRO projections are out and predict the Reds to win a very tight race in the NL Central. Here are some notable individual projections for the minor leaguers: