This is the first installment of something I will be doing all season. It will come out every other Monday for the baseball season. Its not exactly going to be a Top 40 run down, but will touch on guys whose stock is going up or going down.
Stock up
Daryl Thompson - The fastest riser in [...]

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After a week of the season in the books I sat down today and got the first podcast of the season done. Its my first one ever, so its bound to be a little rough. It is 30 minutes long and 14.5 MB in size.
Topics discussed include:
Pitching prospects Johnny Cueto, Homer Bailey, Daryl Thompson, Travis [...]

 

 Redsminorleagues.com Podcast #1 [31:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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The Enquirer ran a whole bunch of short articles on prospects so there is a lot of articles, but not a lot to most of them.
John Fay wrote one on the Young Arms. He touches on the recent history of the Reds pitching prospects.
John also wrote about the 4 young third basemen in the system. [...]

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Roster Moves
Adam Rosales and Josh Roenicke were both sent to minor league camp. Both performed very well with the Reds.
Minor League Updates 
Drew Stubbs had a big day yesterday for the Louisville Bats in a game versus the Chattanooga Lookouts.  Stubbs had 2 two-run HR’s that went to the opposite field.  Misael DeJesus and Ruben Medina [...]

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Sorry about the updates, my Chicago trip was actually pushed back until Thursday so I have been gone the past two days and have a little catching up to do.
Spring Training Game Review 3/13/08 
Adam Rosales went 2-2 with an RBI and a double.
Drew Anderson (OF) went 0-1 with a walk.
Joey Votto went 0-2.
Jay Bruce went [...]

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Spring Training Game Review
Drew Anderson (OF) went 1-2 with an RBI
Chris Dickerson went 0-2.
Jay Bruce went 0-2.
Adam Rosale went 0-1.
Paul Janish went 0-1.
Craig Tatum went 1-2 with a HR and 2 RBI.
Johnny Cueto went 4 innnigs, allowed a hit, walk, hit a batter and struck out 2 while not allowing  a run.
Notes
Unless Johnny Cueto implodes, [...]

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Spring Training Game Review (vs Detroit)
Jay Bruce went 0-4.
Chris Heisey got his first action of the spring and drew a walk and scored a run in his only plate appearance.
Michael Griffin went 2-2 with a run.
Joey Votto went 0-2 with a walk.
Tonys Gutierrez went 1-2.
Ryan Hanigan went 1-3 with 2 RBI.
Adam Rosales went 1-2.
Chris Denove [...]

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Bailey showed both his good and bad sides last night against the Yankees (Kathy Willens/AP)
Spring Training Game Review
Jay Bruce went 2-3 and is hitting .381.
Chris Dickerson went 0-1.
Ryan Hanigan went 0-1.
Adam Rosales went 0-1.
Drew Anderson (OF) went 1-1.
Joey Votto went 0-2.
Paul Janish went 0-1 with a walk.
Homer Bailey allowed 6 hits and 3 walks in [...]

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Spring Training Game Review
Drew Anderson (OF) 0-2.
Jay Bruce 0-3
Chris Dickerson 0-1 with a walk
Joey Votto 1-2 with a run, stolen base and a walk
Adam Rosales 0-1
Paul Janish 0-2
Chris Kroski 1-2 with a run, double and RBI
Craig Tatum 0-2
Ryan Hanigan 1-2 with a double, run and RBI
Daryl Thompson pitched a perfect inning with 3 strikeouts [...]

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Reds heading to Arizona? 

The Reds could be leaving Ed Smith Stadium (Photo: Amber Zawaski)
The Sarasota Herald Tribune has an article up right now and right in the middle is this quote from John Allen:
“If they come up with the funding, wherever they get it from, we are going to Goodyear,”
To me, that signals they are [...]

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