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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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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Two Sarasota Reds were named Player of the Week for last weeks performance.
Hitter of the Week - Florida State League
Chris Valaika, Sarasota
.480 (12-25), 6 R, 2 2B, 0 3B, 3 HR, 6 RBI, 1 BB, 4 SO, 0 SB, .920 SLG
Valaika’s lone walk of the week came on Saturday — just his fifth of the [...]

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Ok, so not quite but the Sarasota Reds are putting up some impressive team numbers. They are currently tied for first place in the league at 14-11. On the hitting side as a team they lead the league in runs, hits, doubles, RBI, slugging percentage and OPS. They are second in steals and on base [...]

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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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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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High A roster is out now, leaving just the Bats left for the Reds to go.  Here are the guys starting out in Sarasota:
Pitchers

Misael DeJesus
Ramon Geronimo
Daniel Guerrero
Kevin Gunter
Robert Manuel
Ruben Medina
Alexander Smit
Jordan Smith
Lee Tabor
Camilo Vazquez
Sean Watson
Travis Wood

Catchers

Chris Denove
Eddy Rodriguez

Infielders

Michael DeJesus
Juan Francisco
Jason Louwsma
Justin Tordi
Justin Turner
Chris Valaika

Outfielder

Chris Heisey
Sean Henry
Carson Kainer
Luis Soto
Drew Stubbs

Roster Make up
It has its share of [...]

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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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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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