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Baseball America's mock has the Reds taking:

Aaron Crow

RHP

Junior

Missouri

Bats R

Throws R

2.35 ERA

15 GP/15 GS

4 CG

107.1 IP

127 SO/ 38 BB

At one point during the season, this guy had a streak of 43 scoreless innings.

Some guy from baseball america was on Lance today and said the Reds are looking seriously at a SS from Georgia that could be in the big leagues in 18 months to 2 years if they can get him signed and in rookie league pronto.

Gordon Beckham

Junior

Shortstop

Georgia

Bats R

Throws R

.397 Avg

19 Doubles

1 Triple

24 Home Runs

65 RBI

.781 SLG%

47 BB vs. 29 SO

.505 OBP

17 SB vs. 1 CS

.961 Fielding Percentage

What does anyone know about Transy's team camp?

The loss of Housley at Newport just dealt a minor blow to Newport's chances in the 9th.

Currently reading Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. If you saw the recent movie 21, this book was the basis for that movie. It's a true story about a bunch of MIT college students using their smarts to beat the house an make large profits of money by studying blackjack basic strategy, counting cards, and working together.

FWIW, Patterson is hitting .409 in his 5 games for the Bats. The other two guys on the 40 man that are outfielders in Louisville are hitting as stated above .253 and a robust .232. If they wanted to bring Cabrera up they would have to put him on the 40 man and I think replacing Freel's speed and hustle is more important than the bat at this point. Now as long as Dusty can hide his urge to put Patterson in the lineup I think it's the right move...

It would be quite interesting to see Rose and Beasley both playing for Miami... Might make Marion want to stay too...

Georgetown's team camp is top notch. Tons of games, good competition, a lot of divisions, etc. etc. etc.

This is not good news for Holmes opponents. While Housely might not have the impact that he would have at Newport, he still may be considered on of the top 10 juniors in the region going into next year and his game seems like the type that would fit well into Holmes system.

Kent Mercker back on the 15-day DL, Danny Herrera up from Triple-A Louisville. I can't wait to see this kid pitch.

Hmm... Whats he throw?

Heard from an extremely reliable source that he has been withdrawn from Newport and will not return for next season. Haven't heard anything else about the matter. Anyone else have any information on this?

Justin Sherlock from Dayton should have another great season. He's a Tough youngman' date=' he can run with the ball, and of course he has the "golden arm". Good luck to all the youngmen!![/quote']

 

Good for a small school, but won't be near as good as some of the other guys being mentioned. Lack of weapons. And they don't let him run a lot. But he is good, and tough...

 

I'd pick Kues for the preseason best....

Hopefully the Club can go 5-3 or 6-2 on the road trip and comeback over .500

That would be great, but on the roadtrip I could take because it would be a great improvement over prior roadtrips...

I think this is just as good an option as Fogg, and makes more sense than Maloney and Pettyjohn because they aren't on the 40 man, and Thompson just got promoted from AA and I have heard that he only has 2 real reliable pitches...

BTW, who's going to guard Kobe if the Celts make it?

 

Rondo? No

Allen? No

Perkins? No

Pierce? No

Garnett? No

 

Of course, one of those 5 will attempt to guard him but I just don't see them doing any good.

 

The Pistons match up much better with the Lakers.

Judging by the fact that they put Pierce on Lebron, I would think they would put Pierce on Kobe. But that takes a lot of energy so if they were to get there and they were to do that Allen would have to produce points more consistantly...

They can be beaten & will be beaten in a game or 2 in the finals but I think they will win the series.

I meant for the entire series... Can they be beaten in the series...

Now, at the start of the playoffs I wouldn't have thought about posting a thread with this title, but someone posted in the other thread an extremely valid point. The Lakers just rolled through the best conference the NBA has ever seen, and did it while only losing 3 games. The have an all star post, a third scoring option that has been playing the best ball of his career, a couple designated sharpshooters, a heady vetran point, reserves that would start for most teams, and oh yeah, the best player in the NBA. And they play defense. All season it has looked like the C's and Piston's were the best in the league, but it is really hard to see anyone beating the Lakers 4 games the way they are playing now. The only thing I think that could hurt them is the long layover until the finals.

What do you think?

If they'd just left Fogg in they couldn't have had any worse result than what they got on Sunday anyway and they wouldn't have had to juggle their rotation to begin with.

They should have given the ball to Bray to start the inning when they were up 9-7 and kept Fogg out in the pen in case Bray didn't nail it down...

White signed a four year contract with Turkish champions Fenerbahçe on September 8 2007, that will play in the 2007-08 Euroleague.

So if he gets offered an NBA contract, can he leave that?

Yep, I just wanted to make sure everyone else remembered it. :thumb: It was just criminal that Fogg, a former starter pitching out of the pen only threw 8 pitches and Harang and Volquez had to be used like they were. Everyone is quick to say that "it's a long season" when their team or favorite player doesn't start well and that's true. It is also true in regard to handling a pitching staff, you don't treat a game in May like it is an elimination game in the playoffs in regard to your pitching staff.

The thought ran through my mind that they should have held Harang back a day and pitched Fogg today, Harang tomorrow, Volquez Saturday, Belisle Sunday, Arroyo again Monday, and then take Fogg back out of the rotation...

While I still think that they did what they had to do on Sunday, I am scheduled to go to the game tomorrow night and am pretty nervous now...

SA made a mistake IMO in not keeping James White on the roster to let him develop into a Bowen type defender at a much younger age. Maybe they will give him another look as they are forced to go younger on the bench going forward...

Where is he at now? Can't believe that he didn't make the roster and someone like Matt Bonner did...

I knew a guy that had something like 99 wings at BW's... Two orders of 50, mild and medium, one fell on the floor...

The Lakers are playing awfully well right now... It is going to be tough for anyone to beat them...

Just think if they had some young rapidly developing 7 ft center to add to all of this next year...

Oh wait... They do...:scared:

What is that? 7 out of 8 times up to the plate Bruce has reached base? With 3 walks, and we were worried about him not being patient...