I asked Ron if he wanted to write up some observations he had on the players he saw this past week as the Lookouts played Mobile. He agreed, so here is what he saw.
Hey guys and gals. Doug asked me to throw something together about my week attending the Lookouts series with the Mobile [...]

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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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The Lookouts Roster is in and it looks like this:
Starting rotation

Sam Lecure
Ben Jukich
Daryl Thompson
James Avery
Justin Mallett

Bullpen

Carlos Fisher
Danny Herrera
Justin James
Derrik Lutz
Ramon Ramirez
Josh Roenicke
Pedro Viola

Infielders

Jose Castro
Drew Anderson
Tonys Gutierrez
Luis Bolivar
Eric Eymann
Michael Griffin

Outfielders

Cody Strait
Danny Dorn
Shaun Cumberland
BJ Szymanski

Catchers

Craig Tatum
Chris Kroski

Familiar Look
Nearly all of these guys were with Chattanooga last year. The guys who surprised me to still be with them [...]

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Roster Moves
The Reds optioned Bill Bray to AAA, sent Andy Phillips down (likely to AAA) and returned Jose Capellan.
Top 10 Names to know in the Southern League - Danny Dorn 
Jonathon Mayo has been writing these ‘Top 10 to know’ articles for each league and today he got to the Southern League. Coming in at #2 [...]

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Jim Molony of Milb.com wrote an article on 5 NL Rookies aiming for the top. Coming in at #4 was Johnny Cueto. Here is what the article said about Cueto:
4. Johnny Cueto, RHP, Reds: No pitcher caused more of a buzz in the Grapefruit League than Cueto, who wowed both scouts and opposing teams. [...]

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The rosters aren’t close to being out yet, so this is all assumption on my part on who will be on the roster. I am going to list 4 players to watch for each team (assuming they are assigned where I believe they will be assigned) and give a quick reason or two to really [...]

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Roster Moves
Craig Tatum and Daryl Thompson were optioned to AA.
Link Rundown 
Hal McCoy has up an article on Daryl Thompson.
James Avery is trying to help Canada qualify for the Olympics. He pitched well against South Korea.
Jonathon Mayo of Milb.com ranks the Reds as the 4th best system in baseball.  Mayo doesn’t say much that others haven’t, [...]

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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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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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