John Fay has an article up on Devin Mesoraco over on Cincinnati.com. While the article has a headline of “Reds take a long look at Mesoraco”, I don’t think that there is a chance he makes the opening day team unless someone gets hurt due to his status on the 40 man roster (where he isn’t on it) as well as the two veterans performing well last season. I do think there is a chance that Mesoraco could be here by midseason if he goes to AAA and mashes the ball though. From the article:
Mesoraco sees catching as his No. 1 job, too.
“No doubt,” he said. “If you’re putting on the gear, that’s the main focus of any catcher, being able to handle the pitching staff and all the little things that go into catching – the plays at the plate, throwing out runners. You want to have the pitchers feel comfortable with you back there.”
Mesoraco may need to round out his defensive game a little bit more, but as I noted on twitter last night, he would very likely be fine defensively in the Majors today.
Fox Sports Ohio has some serious explaining to do after last night’s debacle of the Reds Rewind of the Jay Bruce walk off clincher game. For those who don’t know, FSN showed 8.5 innings of the game. After the top of the 9th inning, the channel went to a commercial. We all know that Jay Bruce took the first pitch of the inning out of the park to win the game and clinch the division for the Reds. Apparently FSN didn’t get that memo though and when the commercials were done, they went to Columbus Blue Jackets pregame coverage. This wasn’t a live game, the game was edited down to fit the time slot and they still messed it up somehow. What is the point of showing that game without showing the bottom of the 9th inning? That is the opposite of, as Charlie Sheen loves to say, WINNING.
Here is how the Reds prospects performed in the win last night against the Dodgers:
- Dave Sappelt went 0-1.
- Ronald Torreyes went 0-1.
- Chris Valaika went 1-1 with a double.
- Kyle Waldrop went 0-1.
- Danny Dorn went 1-3.
- Jefry Sierra went 0-1.
- Yonder Alonso went 0-1.
- Aroldis Chapman struck out 2 in a perfect inning of work.
- Sam LeCure threw 2 shutout innings of work.
Chad Reineke, Jerry Gil and Philippe Valiquette are scheduled to be among the pitchers throwing today from the minor leagues for the Reds.
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