Hitter of the Month - Tonys Gutierrez (Chattanooga)
For the month of May the first baseman hit .381/.492/.526 with 12 extra base hits, 20 walks and just 17 strikeouts while scoring 22 runs. His OPS on the month was 1.017 for the Lookouts. He ranks in the top 5 in the league in average and on [...]

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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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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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Bailey sent to Louisville
It finally happened yesterday. Shouldn’t have really been a surprise to anyone, but there are some interesting things from Wayne Krivksy about it this morning on XM Radio. Wayne said that the Reds had Bailey (Photo: Brita Meng Outzen/MLB.com) working on specific things during the spring, including his mechanics (which was talked [...]

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The Reds made a few more cuts today.
Alexander Smit was outrighted to Sarasota.
Richie Gardner and Tyler Pelland were optioned to AAA.
Chris Kroski and Matt Maloney were sent to Minor League camp.
The Reds also claimed Jose Capellan off of the Giants, who took him from the Red Sox in the Rule V draft. He would have [...]

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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 3/6/08
Chris Dickerson went 0-1 officially, but in the bottom of the 9th after the game was officially over, the teams continued to play to get everyone the time they were scheduled to get. In that inning Dickerson hit a 3 run HR.
Paul Janish went 0-1 with a run.
Drew Anderson went 1-2 [...]

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Spring Training Game Review 3/5/08
Chris Dickerson went 1-2 with an RBI
Adam Rosales went 0-2
Joey Votto went 0-2
Paul Janish went 1-1 with a run and an RBI
Michael Griffin went 0-1 with a run scored
Craig Tatum went 1-1
Drew Anderson (OF) went 1-2 with a double
Homer Bailey went 3ip, 5 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk and 2 Ks.
Tom [...]

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I am just going to combine the two days lines, so the stats will be for the two games combined.

(Photo: Keith Srakocic/AP)
Game Reviews 
Chris Dickerson -  2-5 with a 2 run HR, triple, 2 runs, walk and 2 RBI
Adam Rosales - 2-5 with 3 runs
Jay Bruce - 2-4 with a double, a run scored, a stolen [...]

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Intrasquad Scrimmage
Johnny Cueto pitched an inning and recorded a groundout from Edwin Encarnacion and struck out David Ross and Chris Dickerson. Video of that is below. Jay Bruce went 1-3 with two ground outs and a single. Joey Votto had a rough day as he went 0-3 with 2 strikeouts. Matt Maloney allowed a [...]

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