The IBAF Baseball World Cup is still going on. Here are how the Reds prospects performed in yesterday’s action:
- Didi Gregorius (Netherlands): 0-3 with 2 walks and a run.
- Donald Lutz (Germany): 0-1 with a sac fly and a walk.
- Neftali Soto (Puerto Rico): 1-4 with a double and a run.
The Arizona Fall League also got underway Tuesday afternoon. Here is how the Reds prospects performed out there:
- Yasmani Grandal: 1-3 with a walk and a run.
- Donnie Joseph: 1.2ip, 1bb, 1k, 0er.
- Brad Boxberger: 1.1ip, 0h, 0bb, 4k.
Keith Law tweeted this about Boxberger:
Brad Boxberger just punched out Robbie Grossman on 94, 93, 94 mph fastballs
Not a bad day for the Reds guys out in Arizona. Brad Boxberger blogged about his day, so be sure to go check it out. They play again tomorrow afternoon.
Baseball America is scheduled to release the Southern League Top 20 prospects later today (they usually come out around 11:30am-12:30pm). When it is released, I will be back to post the Reds that made the list (assuming they did). My guess is that Yasmani Grandal will be on the list for sure and that Neftali Soto has an outside chance at making the list near the bottom five spots.
Edit: The list is out
Yasmani Grandal is the only Red to make the list, coming in at #9 overall. It isn’t much of a surprise. Carolina had several solid guys on the team throughout the season, but Grandal was easily the best prospect of the bunch.
All Questions Answered
This is also an All Questions Answered day (Wednesdays I work sort of a real job to help supplement my bank account enough to pay some bills, so I am in and out all day long). So get your questions in. The rules are slightly different since this is incorporated with other things:
- You get three questions that aren’t related to anything posted above the bolded AQA part of the post. You can also ask questions about anything above there as well as your normal three questions.
- Avoid questions that will require a ton of research to answer or that will have very long answers. If it takes me more than two paragraphs to explain, that is too much.
- Ask before midnight and you will get an answer.
Seems simple enough. Get to it.