Louisville has a decent group of starting pitchers don’t they? Well, two of them made the Baseball America Prospect Hot Sheet today.
Daryl Thompson came in at #4 after his final start in Chattanooga and his first start in Louisville resulted in 13 innings, 2 runs, 2 walks and 13 strikeouts. They report that Thompson was [...]

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Daryl Thompson and Travis Wood both made their first starts at their new levels last night. The 22 year old Thompson spent his first 7 weeks in Chattanooga before getting the promotion to Louisville. Wood, 21 years old, spent the first 7 weeks with Sarasota before getting the promotion to Chattanooga along with teammate Jordan [...]

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Paul Janish was called up last night after Jeff Keppinger was hurt. Michael Griffin moved up to Louisville and rumors are that Justin Turner was moved up to Chattanooga. From there on down I haven’t heard anything yet. Lets hope Janish can swing his bat just a little bit in the majors because his defense [...]

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Hitter of the Month - Chris Valaika (Sarasota)

Chris Valaika is making his second go around in the FSL and he is making good of it this year. In the pitchers league the shortstop is leading the league in Batting Average, slugging percentage, OPS, RBI and is second in HR. He is hitting .384/.398/.589 with 8 [...]

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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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Reds Pitchers take home some awards
Justin Lehr won the International League Pitcher of the Week Award. Lehr went 2-0 with a 0.60 ERA in 15 innings of work. He walked just 1, allowed 6 hits and struck out 10 over that span of time.
Daryl Thompson won the Southern League Pitcher of the Week Award. Thompson [...]

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C Trent was in attendance for Saturdays Chattanooga Lookouts game and got a chance to talk to Daryl Thompson after the game. He wrote a great article on him and how he approaches pitching. Its a must read, here are some of the highlights, but really, go read the entire thing.
The first thing Daryl Thompson [...]

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John Sickels had a question and answer session yesterday on his site. 1 question per user so I took my question and asked this:
Doug - So far this season he has sat 90-94 MPH with his FB and hit as high as 97 MPH. If he has turned a corner in terms of his FB [...]

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Baseball America tabs 2 Reds in this weeks Hot Sheet
Baseball America unveils its ‘Prospect Hot Sheet‘ every Friday this year and taps into who the hottest players in the minor leagues are. The Reds, featuring one of the best systems in baseball have landed two prospects on the first Hot Sheet of the year.
Dayton 3B [...]

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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 [...]

 

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