Wednesday August 20th minor league updates

[OnBaseMachine]

Louisville...7:05 - Ramon Ramirez

Chattanooga...12:15 - Sam Lecure

Sarasota...7:00 - Daryl Thompson

Dayton is off today.

Billings...9:15 - Oscar Castro

The GCL Reds play at 12:00.

The DSL Reds played at 10:30.

[mbgrayson]

GCL Reds losing 3-0 after 8 innings. Looks like Alonso is not playing today. Box score is HERE (http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_20_twirok_rdsrok_1).

[princeton]

Looks like Alonso is not playing today.

he and ARod went to the beach together. ARod needed someone to ride coasters with him

[Redman15]

Lookouts trail 2-1 in the 9th. They had runners on 1st and 2nd
no outs in the 8th and had the runner on 1st picked off. They did not score.

[OnBaseMachine]

Chattanooga lost 2-1.

Heisey: 1-for-5
Valaika: 1-for-3 two walks, SB
Dorn: 2-for-4 double
Anderson: 2-for-4
Eymann: 2-for-3 double, walk

Lecure: 6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 3 K

Tabor: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K

Lutz: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

[OnBaseMachine]

The GCL Reds lost 3-0.

Pimentel: 2-for-4 double, triple
Oliveras: 0-for-4
Coddington: 1-for-4 double
Pfister: 1-for-3

Raul Rodriguez: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K

Brodie Pullen also threw a scoreless inning...I guess the Reds are converting him to a pitcher too?

[TRF]

All Dorn does is hit. He should be in AAA right now.

[bucksfan2]

GCL Reds losing 3-0 after 8 innings. Looks like Alonso is not playing today. Box score is HERE (http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_20_twirok_rdsrok_1).

Is he now holding out for a better contract?

[Redman15]

Chatts box score.

Chattanooga
Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG
Henry RF 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .288
Heisey CF 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .314
Valaika SS 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 .298
Dorn 1B 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 .276
Turner 2B 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .283
Anderson,LF 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .255
Eymann 3B 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 .298
Denove C 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 .234
Lecure P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .083
DeJesus, Mic 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .281
Tabor P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333
Szymanski 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .223
Lutz P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000

[reds44]

Is he now holding out for a better contract?
Yonder Ocho Cinco!

[klw]

Is he now holding out for a better contract?

He is working with the Reds to try to rework his contract so he has more options and can go down to the minors.

[OnBaseMachine]

Louisville can clinch their division with a win tonight or a Toledo loss.

[OnBaseMachine]

Ramon Ramirez enters tonight on a roll with a 1.66 ERA and 34 hits allowed and a 18 BB/54 K ratio in his last 10 appearances (54.1 innings). His last three starts have been especially good: 20.1 IP, 10 H, 1 R, 9 BB/22 K.

[OnBaseMachine]

Sarasota is being delayed due to rain.

[dougdirt]

Ramon Ramirez gets a K, ground out to SS and then allows a double over the head of Drew Anderson in LF. Ramirez then picks off the runner at second base.

[OnBaseMachine]

Stubbs singles.

[dougdirt]

Drew Stubbs with an infield single as the SS backhands it in the hole but had no shot at getting him at first.

[11larkin11]

Stubbs. Singles Machine

[dougdirt]

Ramon Ramirez allowed a 2 run HR to leave Louisville trailing 2-0 after 1 1/2.

[dougdirt]

Kevin Barker hits a double off the wall. Lets get him around.

[OnBaseMachine]

Ramon Ramirez allowed a 2 run HR to leave Louisville trailing 2-0 after 1 1/2.

After retiring the first two hitters. Looked like it was going to be an easy inning...

[OnBaseMachine]

Stubbs flies out to deep CF according to gameday to end the third inning.

2-0.

[dougdirt]

Stubbs flies out to deep CF according to gameday to end the third inning.

2-0.

Very front of the warning track. I thought it was gone when he hit it....

[OnBaseMachine]

Ramirez: 4 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 2 K

[11larkin11]

Very front of the warning track. I thought it was gone when he hit it....

405 to CF in Louisville, about a 400 foot out then?

[dougdirt]

405 to CF in Louisville, about a 400 foot out then?

Probably so.

[OnBaseMachine]

Sarasota is underway and scoreless after 1 1/2 innings.

[dougdirt]

Louisville down 4-0.

[OnBaseMachine]

Daryl Thompson has retired the first six with one strikeout.

[PuffyPig]

Daryl Thompson has retired the first six with one strikeout.


That must have been one magical strikeout to count for 6 outs.....

[OnBaseMachine]

Todd Frazier is 2-for-3 with his 19th homerun.

[AccordinglyReds]

Bats lost, 5-0

Ramirez: 6.1 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
Herrera: 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 1 K
Roenicke: 0.2 IP, 3 BB, 2 K
Stubbs: 1-4, 1 K
Castillo: 0-3, 1 K
Cumberland: 1-3
Richar: 0-4

[OnBaseMachine]

After showing excellent control with Louisville all year Roenicke has really struggled with control his last two appearances.

[crazyredfan40]

After showing excellent control with Louisville all year Roenicke has really struggled with control his last two appearances.


He did that for about 3 or 4 starts in chattanooga if I remember correctly...

[Blitz Dorsey]

Good for Frazier, was starting to worry about him a bit. Not worry in the sense that he's never going to be a good player for the Reds, but he seemed to regress a little bit in the second half this year. I know Sarasota is a pitchers' league, but if Juan Francisco improves as the year goes on, I expect the same out of Todd Frazier. Actually when you consider Stubbs' numbers at Sarasota and the fact that he got promoted, it's pretty amazing Frazier hasn't been promoted to Chattanooga yet. I guess they are just going to start him there next year, but if Stubbs earned a promotion, Frazier should have as well. I think keeping him in Florida all summer (which must suck with those 105-degree days) caused him to plateau. Not just because of the heat, just the fact that he didn't get rewarded for playing well. He should have finished the year in AA, IMO.

[OnBaseMachine]

The DSL Reds lost 6-1 but Juan Duran went 2-for-4.

[camisadelgolf]

Brodie Pullen also threw a scoreless inning...I guess the Reds are converting him to a pitcher too?

That's the second time he's thrown a scoreless inning with the Reds. People thought he was being converted after the first time, but he continued to spend most of his time playing third base. His hitting is really bad (.202/.295/.244), so I think it's time for him to give it a full-time try.

[AmarilloRed]

Sarasota lost 6-4

Frazier:2-4, HR, 2 RBI

Francisco: 1-4, 33rd double

Thompson: 6 IP, 7 hits, 3 runs, 3 ER, 0 BB, 2 K


Mustangs lose 11-1

Stiffler:1-4, double

Konstanty:2-4

[crazyredfan40]

Good for Frazier, was starting to worry about him a bit. Not worry in the sense that he's never going to be a good player for the Reds, but he seemed to regress a little bit in the second half this year. I know Sarasota is a pitchers' league, but if Juan Francisco improves as the year goes on, I expect the same out of Todd Frazier. Actually when you consider Stubbs' numbers at Sarasota and the fact that he got promoted, it's pretty amazing Frazier hasn't been promoted to Chattanooga yet. I guess they are just going to start him there next year, but if Stubbs earned a promotion, Frazier should have as well. I think keeping him in Florida all summer (which must suck with those 105-degree days) caused him to plateau. Not just because of the heat, just the fact that he didn't get rewarded for playing well. He should have finished the year in AA, IMO.


I think this is more about defense and finding him a position than his offense...I would like to see a permanent move to either 3rd base or LF...