Homer Bailey

Interview with Matt Klinker as well as some links to other good stuff

March 5, 2008

The guys over at Redlegnation.com have up their most recent podcast and one of their writers sat down with Matt Klinker (attended Lakota West HS here in the Cincinnati area and was a 2007 draft pick out of Furm...

Spring Training updates

Doug Gray

February 29, 2008

2/28 Spring Training Game Jerry Gil went 1-2 with a 3 run HR. Chris Dickerson went 1-2 with a double. Adam Rosales went 1-2 with a run. Jay Bruce went 1-2 (Photo by Jeff Swinger/Enquirer). Joey Votto went ...

First spring game, a GREAT Reds minors preview and more articles

Doug Gray

February 28, 2008

Spring Training Game Review Chris Dickerson went 1-2 Jerry Gil went 1-2 Adam Rosales went 1-1 with a solo HR (Photo by Keith Srakocic/AP) Joey Votto went 0-2 Jay Bruce went 1-2 Paul Janish went 0-1 Cra...

Reds place 5 prospects in Baseball America's Top 100

Doug Gray

February 26, 2008

Every year the Baseball America Top 100 Prospect list comes out as the most heralded prospect list around. This year it was no different. Several other quality lists came out that had the prospect community's a...

How the young guns are looking so far

Doug Gray

February 24, 2008

Homer Bailey threw live batting practice today and here is what he and John Fay had to say about it: I finally saw Homer Bailey throw against hitters. He looked good against a good group – Brandon Phillips, Ale...

Ramifications of Josh Fogg and Jeremy Affeldt signings

Doug Gray

February 22, 2008

Aaron Harang, Bronson Arroyo, Matt Belisle, Josh Fogg and who? That sounds like the Reds rotation heading into 2008. There are a lot of people competing for that final spot in the rotation. Edinson Volquez, Je...

A few Jay Bruce articles, some more pictures, thoughts on Fogg and Sarasota back in things

Doug Gray

February 21, 2008

There are a plethora of Jay Bruce articles making their rounds through the papers. John Erardi has a peice on Bruce entitled "Up in the Bit" in the Enquirer. John Fay has one on what Baker thinks about Bruce....

Six Reds make the Top 150 prospects in Baseball

Doug Gray

February 19, 2008

Over at ProjectProspect.com they just released their Top 150 Prospect List. This is one of my favorite sites, as it takes a different approach to ranking and evaluating prospects. I had my hand in the list a li...

First day of workouts and tons of quotes

Doug Gray

February 17, 2008

I am still working on running the numbers on several guys for a new little stat I was introduced to the other day by Adam Foster (of Projectprospect.com). So I decided to put up some quotes from Dusty Baker an...

Oh how sweet it is (to have Spring Training here)

Doug Gray

February 16, 2008

Ah, Spring Training is finally here. Its usually the second best day of the year (behind Opening Day of course). From the end of October until mid-February there is no baseball to speak of on television and af...