Hitter of the Month - Zach Cozart (Dayton)
The shortstop hit .309/.353/.606 with 7 doubles, 3 triples and 5 HR on the month to go with 13 runs scored and 9 RBI. June was far and away his best month, lets hope he keeps it up.
Other nominees - Todd Frazier, Danny Dorn, Shaun Cumberland, Adam Rosales [...]

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Today is the beginning of the international signing period. Players that are 16 can begin signing today and ones that turn 16 before the season is over can begin signing on their birthdays.
Sam Lecure was placed on the DL (minor league DL is 7 days) with a strained knee. Hopefully its nothing serious.
The Reds apparently [...]

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Coming into the year, Sam Lecure was my #22 prospect in the Reds system. In early May he was one of the prospects who had lowered his stock due to his poor performance this year in Chattanooga. Lecure (Photo: Tim Evearitt/The Chattanoogan) has made 9 starts since that prospect stock market article and he has [...]

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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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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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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 before the start of the inning

Sam Lecure also warms up before the inning begins [...]

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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 Rotation
Lets assume that right now (and its not really that big of an assumption) that Harang, Arroyo and [...]

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