With the season in review for each team starting this week, I didn’t post any new and notes. Well, today is the day that I catch up on all that I have neglected over the past week.
I will sometimes write an article for John Sickels over at Minor League Ball. With a busy weekend, John asked me to write up something on three sleeper prospects in the Reds system. As guys who follow the site, you probably have at least heard plenty about two of the three guys. But if you wanted to head over and check it out, I wrote about Chad Rogers, Seth Mejias-Brean and Pedro Diaz. It isn’t too in depth, but just a little information on each guy to kind of get some awareness out there to non-Reds fans (I know, who are those people?) on some guys who they probably haven’t heard of who could have a future.
Fangraphs had up two different articles on Tony Cingrani this past week. The first was by Mike Newman on Monday, who saw him during one of his minor league starts (and has some video if you are into that sort of thing). Mike was left unsure as to his future as a starter or reliever and also believes he needs to continue to take steps forward with his offspeed pitches. On Tuesday Carson Cistulli posted an article on Cingrani that broke down him more from the mechanic (also with video) side of things to try to show why, despite average velocity, that Cingrani has a fastball that generates outstanding results.
On Friday the 14th, Baseball America released it’s minor league all star team. Billy Hamilton was named to the team as the DH (top prospect in baseball Jurickson Profar was named as the shortstop on the team) and Tony Cingrani was one of the five starters named to the squad
The Dayton Dragons and Cincinnati Reds have extended their player development contract for four more years. It now extends through 2016. With the Reds and Dragons though, it is a mere formality. The Dragons can’t operate a team without the Reds approval, so unless the Reds decide they want to let another team operate in their back yard (and they aren’t ever going to allow that), those two are going to be together.