I know it's just spring training but I think this kid is gonna be something special.
Am I jumpin the gun here in my opinion of him?
I know it's just spring training but I think this kid is gonna be something special.
Am I jumpin the gun here in my opinion of him?
Last edited by Ron Madden; 02-28-2020 at 03:51 PM.
Cherokee (03-06-2020),cumberlandreds (02-29-2020),DocRed (02-28-2020)
If you can't be excited about baseball in the Spring there is something wrong. So be excited about the kid.
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John Fay
@johnfayman
I don't see Garcia making the team out of spring training. But I think he'll be up pretty quickly if he puts up the kind of numbers at AA that he did in high A. #reds
Cherokee (03-06-2020),Edd Roush (02-28-2020),Old school 1983 (02-28-2020),Ron Madden (02-28-2020),Tuff Nut (02-29-2020)
Short of Castillo (who wasn't really homegrown) the Reds really haven't had a prospect rocket up out of nowhere during the past 10 years. This is awesome.
Cherokee (03-06-2020),cnwizz (02-29-2020),cumberlandreds (02-29-2020),Griffey012 (02-28-2020),M2 (02-28-2020),membengal (02-28-2020),Mitri (02-29-2020),Ron Madden (02-28-2020),Tuff Nut (02-29-2020)
Defense - check!
Power - check!
Can hit a major league fastball in spring training - check!
Can he recognize and lay off the breaking ball? Let's see if he can do that in AAA.
Ron Madden (02-28-2020),WrongVerb (02-28-2020)
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
Ron Madden (02-28-2020)
2.150 OPS!!
Always Red (02-29-2020),Ron Madden (02-28-2020)
The television crews left and about 10 reporters remained in the room. That's when Price took his turn doing the talking.
What followed was a five-minute, 34-second expletive-filled tirade. The final tally was 77 uses of the "F" word or a variant and 11 uses of a vulgar term for feces (two bovine, one equine).
RedForLife (03-02-2020),Ron Madden (02-28-2020)
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Bunting Bad (02-29-2020),Ron Madden (02-28-2020),Spanky (02-28-2020),Tuff Nut (02-29-2020)
That's a neigh impossible jump to the majors. The steps sorta look like this:
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A
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Rk
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Ron Madden (02-28-2020),Spanky (02-28-2020),Tom Servo (02-28-2020)
https://mobile.twitter.com/Reds/stat...93547271294976Cincinnati Reds
@Reds
Name: José Garcia
Age: 21
Skills: Hitting baseballs very very far
Back in 1970 a skinny 20 year old from Venezuela ended up making the team. Many on Sparky’s first Reds team were young.
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Reds fan since 1968 win or lose.
membengal (02-28-2020)
Not sure I buy that breakdown. I’ve always considered AA and AAA to be very close together. Mainly due to the fact that AAA has a combination of legitimate prospects and guys who have stalled out and/or AAAA-types. I think it’s more like:
MLB
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AAA
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A+
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A
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Rk
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