Is Billy Beane off of his rocker?
According to John Fay the Reds and A's have talked about Joe Blanton. Apparently Billy Beane wants one of Bailey/Cueto as well as Joey Votto and a third prospect. Has he fallen off of his rocker or does he thin...
Ken Rosenthal says the Reds may be talking about a trade for Joe Blanton
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports is reporting that the Reds may be in on trade talks for A's starting pitcher Joe Blanton. Blanton has had some success in the American League, but he has done it while playing in the...
Site news and updates
Well over the past few days I have been working on getting the Top 40 Prospects portion of the site formatted so it looked somewhat decent. I have that up and running now. Its the same list, with the exception ...
Some video of Adam Rosales, Tyler Pelland and Sam Lecure
I found these on youtube the other day and thought it would be a good time to post them. The footage is from the Arizona Fall League this past season.
Adam Rosales lines a single
Tyler Pelland warms up be...
Groundball inducing starters in the Reds system
Yesterday I covered some of our better relief pitchers at inducing groundballs. Today I want to take a look into the starting pitchers that induce groundballs more than most others in the system. Playing in Gre...
Groundball inducing relievers in the Reds system
Given the Reds ballpark being a home run heaven for hitters, getting pitchers that induce ground balls is generally a good thing (lets just pretend the Kirk Saarloos experiment never happened). I went through a...
Need some opinions from you guys
I would love to get some feedback on something I am going to do for my own research, but would wonder what the interest level would be from you as far as it being on the site. What I am going to do, whether its...
Future Commitments and the minor leagues (Part 2)
Like Part 1 of this series, this idea spawned from what Justin did a couple of days ago on the Reds future payroll commitments. Today though I wanted to take a look at the pitching staff.
The Starting Rotati...
Baseball Prospectus and ESPN.com Top 100 Prospect lists
First lets take a look at Kevin Goldstein's list over at Baseball Prospectus. There are only 4 Reds on the list and it is is usual suspects.
Jay Bruce came in at the top of the list. In the chat there are a fe...
Welcome back…. kind of. What is new and what is old
Well guys, this is the new site.
Whats New?
Similar layout as before, except I have a lot more control over the layout itself and well, I also get paid (very little by the way) for the ad's on the top, side a...