Wednesday news and notes

Now that we have some games under way, the All Questions Answered threads will probably be every few weeks instead of just about every week. They were mostly just space filler in a long off season where there are only so many things to write about.

Here is how the prospects performed in the game on Tuesday afternoon:

• Kristopher Negron went 0-1.
• Henry Rodriguez went 1-2 with a walk and a run.
• Todd Frazier went 0-1 with 2 walks.
• Daryl Jones went 0-2.
• Denis Phipps went 1-3 with a 3 run HR.
• Donald Lutz went 1-2 with a solo HR.
• Neftali Soto went 1-2 with a run.
• Chris Valaika went 1-2 with an RBI.
• Didi Gregorius went 0-2.
• Nick Christiani allowed a run in 1 inning of work with a walk and 2 strikeouts.
• Andrew Brackman allowed 2 hits, 2 tuns, 2 walks and had 2 strikeouts in 2 innings.
• Donnie Joseph threw a perfect inning with 2 strikeouts.

The game also took place on Seattle’s home field, which is one of several parks with the Pitch F/X camera’s operating in them. Here is a quick and dirty look at the Reds prospect pitchers raw data:

It is early still. These guys probably aren’t at their top speeds just yet.

John Fay has an article up on Cincinnati.com about Daniel Corcino. Much of the article compares Corcino with Johnny Cueto. Here is what Mario Soto has to say about Corcino’s change up:

“We teach it to them at the academy,” Soto said. “Some of them, it takes longer to adjust to that. Right now, he’s still working on it. It’s harder than you want. But I like the spin. I saw a couple today that he had a pretty good spin on. He continues to work on that.”

John Fay has a recap of the game from the afternoon. He notes this about the home run that Denis Phipps hit:

Denis Phipps hit a three-run shot in the fifth. It hit a tent about 50 feet behind the 340 mark in left.

Phipps has some power potential, though it hasn’t quite come to fruition just yet.