The Reds Organizational All Stars, as picked by Milb.com is now up. My biggest gripe would be with the omission of Denis Phipps from the list. Tough to leave out a guy who hit .346 between AA and AAA. Perhaps it was just an oversight, but its a pretty big one.
While Aroldis Chapman isn’t a prospect or minor leaguer anymore, the Reds announced he would be making three appearances in the Arizona Fall League to build up some stamina as a starter. Hopefully he will make some appearances in stadiums with Pitch F/X installed.
Speaking of Pitch F/X, Brad Boxberger threw Thursday afternoon and while his results weren’t good, there was Pitch F/X data to look at. His fastball worked 92-93 and topped out at 95.1 MPH. hope that over the next week that the Desert Dogs spend a few more days in stadiums with Pitch F/X set up, as I would like to have even a small sample of data to look at for the pitchers we have. Right now there is only about 60 pitches between Boxberger and Nick Christiani, and nothing on Travis Webb.
Boxberger also updated his blog at the AFL Prospects Blog. He talked about the ups and downs of baseball and touched on his appearance on Thursday. In there he noted that he left some pitches up yesterday and paid the price for it. Go read the whole thing though, it is always interesting to look into what a player has going on in their head about the game.
Project Prospect has brought out their A+ and AA “top prospects” lists, though it is mostly a statistical tool that uses stats and age to find a group of players who are young and have performed well. In the A+ list, Henry Rodriguez makes an appearance where it was noted that he carried his success to AA. On the AA list, Neftali Soto and his power bat made the list.
The Reds new AA team in Pensacola has updated photos of the new ballpark construction. You can check them out here if you want. The park really looks like it will be a very aesthetically pleasing place to take in a ball game.
One final piece of good news: Texas Rangers 2 – St Louis Cardinals 1.