So, yesterdays game was UGLY wasn’t it? Thankfully it was only spring training. But, more on that later.
There has been talk about the absence of Yorman Rodriguez with all of the young guys playing in spring training so far. John Fay gets an answer:
With minor leaguers getting a lot of action, it’s a little surprising that outfielder Yorman Rodriguez hasn’t made an appearance. There’s a good reason for that. He’s not in camp.
Rodriguez is due to arrive Tuesday, so there’s a chance he’ll get in a game or two before spring ends.
There is more prospect information at the link from Fay, mostly talking about how stacked Louisville is going to be. Go check it out.
Satchel Price over at perhaps my favorite non-Reds specific website, Beyond the Box Score has up a composite ranking of the Position Prospects in baseball based off of the national rankings of Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, Frankie Piliere (the now defunct FanHouse) and Espn. Go check it out. The Reds have four guys within the Top 50.
Later today
Jonathan Mayo’s Reds Top 10 prospects list should be live on Reds.com at some point this morning. So go check it out once it goes live. After I get up, I will update the link but for now it is just going to Reds.com.
Beyond the Box Score will have up its Top 100 prospect list at some point today as well. It wasn’t live when I posted this, so like the Reds Top 10 list, the link for now will just be to the site and updated when I get out of bed.
How the prospects performed in Monday’s brutal beatdown at the hand of the Brewcrew:
- Zack Cozart went 0-1.
- Danny Dorn went 0-1.
- Juan Francisco went 0-2.
- Dave Sappelt went 2-2 with a solo HR (2). He is now hitting .533 in the spring. Do you remember the last time someone started out like this?
- Yasmani Grandal hit an absolute laser off of the wall for a double in his only at bat. He was also HBP.
- Chris Valaika went 1-2.
- Kris Negron went 0-1.
- Jeremy Horst allowed 2 hits, a walk and had a strikeout in 0.1 innings of work.
- Aroldis Chapman threw a scoreless inning of work with a walk and 2 wild pitches.
Scout Jason Parks and Yahoo writer and Cincinnati favorite C Trent Rosecrans had a short exchange on Yasmani Grandal after his double on twitter. It went like this:
CTrent: Love that stroke I just saw from Grandal. Quick, quick bat
ProfessorParks: Yep. From the left-side, I’m assuming. Much longer from the right
CTrent: yeah, was a double from the left side. down and in, turned on it
ProfessorParks: Yeah, I really like Grandal. If they push him to AA he might struggle a bit, but nice combo of defense and pop.
Antother guy asked where Mesoraco fits in with Grandal. Parks had this to say:
ProfessorParks: He’s a step ahead in the developmental process, but I think Grandal will make the better catcher; more defensive tools
I will have to disagree with him on the last part. Grandal may be a better receiver than Mesoraco (may, I don’t know yet…. you never really know until you see them catch pro’s on a day in and day out basis), but Mesoraco has better feet, better athleticism and a better arm behind the plate in my opinion.