2013 Reds Spring Training Articles
I would like to have a thread devoted to articles about Our Cincinnati Reds. Some articles deserve their own thread, if that is a case by all means create it. However, I like reading smaller stories as well, and sometime have a hard time finding them. I thought that a communal effort would be effective.
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Bronson Arroyo is entering the final year of his Reds contract and the veteran realizes it could be his last year in Cincinnati, MLB.com's Mark Sheldon reports. "When you have a team as we do, where everyone is coming into their own kind of at the same time, and add the fact we have a couple of monster deals already in place, it's going to be tough for me to stick around here if I have [a] successful season," Arroyo said.
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Given the time Reds GM Walt Jocketty is spending on Homer Bailey's contract, John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer figures Bailey could be in line for a multiyear deal. The Reds have already signed two other arbitration-eligible pitchers (Mat Latos and Logan Ondrusek) to two-year extensions this offseason. Bailey is in his second year of arb eligibility.
From MLBtraderumors.
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John Fay article on Billy Hamilton:
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Hamilton stole an all-time record 155 bases last year. He's created a bit of legendry for himself in his short career. He caught a flyball on the warning track when he was still playing shortstop (the left fielder lost the ball). He scored on a sacrifice fly on a popup to second. And he was clocked in 13.8 seconds on an inside-the-park home run.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...nter-attention
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Mark Sheldon on Nick Masset:
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"Now I'm starting to build up to throwing every day," Masset said on Thursday. "It's not exactly where I want it to be right now. But I understand that it is a process. I'm really going to have to grind through the aches and pains to build arm strength to get my arm able to throw consistently without having any setbacks."
Masset's throwing program is slated to last at least three months before he can return to game action. It's unclear when he can begin working from a mound again.
http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/news/...k_cin&c_id=cin
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Mark Sheldon article on Devin Mesoraco:
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The workouts resumed and the results can now be seen on Mesoraco's build. He dropped from 229 pounds last season to 214 when he reported to camp this week.
The endgame for the weight loss was to make him a better, and more nimble, catcher.
"I feel like last year without catching as many games in the summer heat, I put on more weight than I would normally want to," Mesoraco said. "I came down here with more of a goal in mind on a couple of things I could change. Defensively, I felt like my positioning in my catching could improve with guys on base.
http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/news/...s_cin&c_id=cin
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From John Fay - Shin-Soo Choo draws crowd at Reds' spring training
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Twenty-five members of the South Korean media, representing 12 organizations, were at the Reds' spring training complex to cover him.
They followed his every move -- from the batting cages for early work to outfield practice to batting practice on the field. Most of the contingent will spend five days in Goodyear. During the season, however, only one reporter follows Choo.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...pring-training
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Later in that same game, one of the opposing hitters hit a line drive to the right centerfield gap, "between centerfielder and rightfielder and second baseman," says Hillman. "Billy comes racing across the field in a full sprint, and makes an over shoulder catch in the gap. This wasn't a soft-hit ball -- it would have been a double, the outfielders wouldn't have been get to it. A shortstop making a catch on a line drive in rightfield -- the scouts were all saying they'd never seen anything like that."
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz2L2j9MjTc
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I understand Billy Hamilton is fast and all; but the fastest player ever in MLB? I think people are forgetting that back in 1984, Jim Coombs won 4x100 meter gold - by himself. Oh yeah, Coombs also high jumped 19'6"; winning both the high jump and the pole vault with that single effort. To top things off he garnered enough points in the first three events of the decathlon that he was able to sit out the final seven events and still stood atop the podium. Yep, Billy still has a ways to go.