Reds Down on the Farm...

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Here's a piece on the Reds 23rd Round Selection this year, Mississippi high school player Daniel Sweet...He still hasn't made up his mind yet on if he will sign with the Reds... He's committed to Youngstown State and is presently playing ball in Florida...

 

Sweet aroma of major league success » The Mississippi Link

 

Some interesting tidbits from the article...The five-year varsity letterman first took the outfield for St. Andrew’s Episcopal School’s baseball team and batted at the top of the order as a switch hitter in the eighth grade. As a ninth- grader, Sweet led the Saints offensively, batting .483 during the regular season and earning the Best Offensive Player Award.

 

Taking his talents to the Northwest Rankin Cougars, Sweet finished his senior season with All-District, All-Star and All-Metro honors. He earned a .377 batting average and as the team’s leadoff hitter had a .606 on base percentage. Sweet also led the team in steals, walks, runs scored and times hit by pitch. Sweet also graduated with academic honors and received the MHSAA Scholar Athlete Award.

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The AZL Reds open up tonight and the roster has finally been released...AZL Reds Team Roster | MiLB.com Roster | The Official Site of Minor League Baseball

 

Eleven 2012 draft choices are on the Roster, I'm particular interested in the bolded: Rahier (R2), Moscot (4), Felt (5), Brent Peterson (12), Moran (14), Jackson Stephens (18) (youngest player on team), Austin Muehring (19), Avain Rachal (22), Mike Saunders (24), Michael Salter (31), Richard McCaffrey (34).

 

Amir Garrett is also on the Roster :ylsuper:...

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6/20

Lville-Mike Costanzo went 1-3 with 2 walks and 2 runs...Cody Puckett went 1-2 with 2 walks and 2 runs...Felix Perez went 3-3 with 2 doubles, an RBI and a run...Corky Miller went 1-2 with 2 walks and 2 RBI...Felix Perez continued his hot June, raising his line to .338/.400/.471 on the month with 6 walks and 11 strikeouts, he seems to finally be coming around and it would be nice if he would live up to the hype he had a few years back...

 

Billings-Sammy Diaz went 1-3 with a double, 2 walks, a run and 2 RBI...Carlos Sanchez went 1-3 with a walk, HR (1) and 3 RBI...Spencer Dickinson went 1-3 with a walk and 2 runs...Taylor Wrenn went 1-3 with a walk and a run.

 

AZL Reds-Ty Washington went 1-4 with a walk, RBI, steal (1) and a run...Brent Peterson went 1-3 with 2 walks, an RBI, 2 steals (2) and 2 runs...Tanner Rahier went 2-5 with a HR (1) and 3 RBI...Jonathan Reynoso went 1-4 with a double and 2 runs...Argenis Aldazoro went 2-4 with a triple, HR (1), 2 RBI and 2 runs...Pedro Diaz allowed 1 earned (2 total) in 3 innings with 3 strikeouts...Michael Salter threw 2 shutout innings with 3 strikeouts...Richard McCaffrey threw a perfect inning with a strikeout...I bolded Peterson and Rahier because they are both nice looking prospects especially Rahier... Rahier played 3rd in the game and he has the look of a future power hitting 3rd Baseman...

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Billy Hamilton and Kyle Lotzkar have been selected to play in the Futures Game...Billy Hamilton will be on the US Team while Lotzkar the Canadian will play for the World Team...The game is July 8th at 5pm on ESPN 2...

 

BaseballAmerica.com: Prospects: Futures Game: 2012 Futures Game World Roster

 

BaseballAmerica.com: Prospects: Futures Game: 2012 Futures Game U.S. Roster

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6/21

Lville-Joey Gathright went 2-5 with a run...Dioner Navarro went 2-4 with a walk, RBI and a run...Paul Janish went 2-2 with 3 walks, a HR (3), double, 2 RBI and 3 runs...Bill Rhinehart went 1-4 with a walk, HR (7), 2 RBI and a run...Cody Puckett went 3-4 with a walk, 2 RBI and 2 runs...Daryl Jones went 2-5 with a run...Navarro stays hot and is hitting .333 on the Year...Gathright is hitting .296...Paul Janish reached base 5 times with 2 extra base hits, He is now hitting .296 on the year...

 

Pensacola-Ryan LaMarre went 1-3 with a double, steal (17) and 2 walks...Didi Gregorius went 1-4 with a walk and RBI.

 

Bakersfield-Billy Hamilton went 4-5 with a walk, 2 runs, 3 RBI and 2 steals (82)...Dominic D’Anna went 2-5 with a triple, walk, RBI and a run...Travis Mattair went 2-4 with a double, solo HR (9) and a walk...Juan Duran went 2-5...Steve Selsky went 2-4 with a walk and 2 solo home runs in his Bakersfield Debut (5)...Tucker Barnhart went 5-5 with a double, HR (4), 2 RBI and 3 runs...Josh Smith allowed 2 runs in 6.2 innings with a walk and 5 strikeouts...Andrew Brackman threw 1.1 perfect innings with 2 strikeouts...Josh Smith has 10 starts since the beginning of May with a 2.55 ERA, 15 walks and 55 strikeouts in 60 innings with 3 home runs allowed... Tucker Barnhart had a career high with 5 hits, a home run and he threw out an attempted base stealer...Billy Hamilton stays on fire after the All Star Break, it is time to promote him...

 

Billings-Sammy Diaz went 2-4 with 2 runs...Robert Ramirez went 1-2 with 2 walks...Jesse Winker went 1-3 with a run and HBP...Robert Maddox went 1-3 with a double and 2 RBI...Wagner Gomez went 1-3...Sal Romano threw 5 shutout innings with 3 strikeouts...Dan Langfield threw 2 shutout innings...Jimmy Moran threw a shutout inning of relief...Sal Romano made his pro debut with 5 shutout innings and a win. He had a 9-2 groundout to flyout ratio in the game... Romano is thought of pretty high in the Reds organization, he was a UT Commit and another guy that fell to late in the draft because everyone assumed he would go to college...Romano wasn't drafted until the 23rd Round but received a signing bonus worth $450,000 to play professional baseball in the Reds' organization, the deal locks him up for six years...For comparison the Reds 2nd Rounder only received $500,000...

 

AZL Reds-Ty Washington went 3-4 with a triple, RBI and a run...Jonathan Reynoso went 4-4 with 2 triples and 2 runs...Avain Rachal went 2-3 with a walk, triple, RBI and a run...Julio Morillo went 1-4 with a double, RBI and a run...Elliott Hargreaves went 2-4 with a double...4 Triples in 1 game :eek:...Ty Washington a SS is another guy the Reds signed over slot to pry him from a college commit to Oklahoma...Reynoso is a 19 year old OF that spent the last 2 season in the DSL...Rachal was a Houston commit that was just drafted by the Reds as a Pitcher, but he is apparently also a very good hitter and is playing the field...Hargreaves is a 16 Year Old OFer from Australia...Reynoso is hitting .625 through 2 games...

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Tucker Barnhart is the Baseball America Prospect Hitter of the day...

 

Tucker Barnhart certainly is having a June to remember. A .457/.510/.783/1.292 line on the month to raise his season line to a respectable .290/.383/.444/.826. His righty/lefty splits suggest he may want to give up on switch hitting though...

 

Vs Left: .135/.246/.173/.419

Vs Right: .359/.444/.564/1.009

 

Given those kind of results as a RH hitter vs LH pitching, I think he should maybe just hit as strictly as a lefty...

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Drew Cisco makes his debut tonight for Billings...

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Reds supplemental first round pick Jeff Gelalich was named to Baseball America’s College All American First Team

[Clyde]

Olney tweeted today that Billy Hamilton says he was only timed once int he 40 and ran a 4.5 as a freshman in high school.

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Olney tweeted today that Billy Hamilton says he was only timed once int he 40 and ran a 4.5 as a freshman in high school.

 

That doesn't scream "fastest guy in baseball" to me.

[nkufan23]

That doesn't scream "fastest guy in baseball" to me.

 

Are you being sarcastic :lol:...That's pretty fast for a Freshman in HS...90 Feet is only 30 Yards, he is pretty fast especially when he exits the box as a lefty...Here is the entire link, Billy Hamilton on pace to break minor league stolen-base record - MLB - ESPN

 

Billy Hamilton can't remember ever running on a track, so he has no idea what his time in the 100 meters would be. There was a day, he said, that he was asked to run a 40-yard dash at a football camp in Mississippi.

 

"I ran a 4.5 flat," he recalled Thursday evening. "I was in the ninth grade."

 

That's a respectable time for NFL running backs. But that was six years ago and Hamilton, 21, is faster now, as he wrecks stolen-base records in the minor leagues. Not long after that conversation, he went 4-for-5 and stole two more bases for the Class A Bakersfield Blaze, bringing his season total to 82 -- in 67 games.

 

His next attempt will be his 100th -- he's been thrown out 17 times -- and Hamilton is swiftly approaching benchmarks established by previous generations of minor-leaguers. According to records maintained by Baseball America, Otis Nixon stole the most bases for any player in Triple-A since 1962, swiping 94 in 1983. Donell Nixon swiped 102 for Chattanooga in 1984, the most in Double-A.

 

If Hamilton remains in Class A for the rest of the season, he would appear to have an excellent shot at breaking the record for most steals for any player, at any level, since 1962 -- Vince Coleman's 145, set in 1983 for Class A Macon.

 

But Hamilton has given the Reds a lot of reason to think about promoting him, given his improvement at the plate. Hamilton is hitting .331 and, more importantly, has raised his on-base percentage to .416. He has 53 walks and could be on his way to 100 for the season.

[Clyde]

That doesn't scream "fastest guy in baseball" to me.

 

Correct.

 

IF he hasn't gotten any stronger or faster in 6 or 7 years.