2013 Cincinnati Reds Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

Stubbs to DL retroactive, Willie Harris called up, Masset to 60-day DL retroactive to make room on 40-man for Harris.

Stubbs will be activated Mon or Tue, and if Harris goes back down he'll either have to pass through waivers or be designated for assignment again and removed from the 40-man. I'm guessing Negron will ne the one to go, though.

Rolen starts his rehab assignment today in AAA.

[Goober]

keithlaw @keithlaw

I'd call Homer Bailey's stuff "vanilla" but that would be misleading because I like vanilla

[Warner2BruceTD]

Daniel Corcino had a no hitter through 8 for Pensacola, and in typical modern baseball fashion, they yanked him. Wilkin De La Rosa finished off the no-hitter.

110 pitches. Total pussy shit. I'm sure he would have died or his arm would have fallen off had he pitched one more inning.

If you breed 100 pitch pitchers, then you end up with 100 pitch pitchers. Rangers are letting their kids pitch 130, 140 pitches. They are breeding horses, the rest of baseball is breeding dogs.

[Rudi]

Little Cueto is the real deal.

But how about the roll this team is on after that huge meltdown against the Tigers. We have won 6 in a row with the likes of Wilson Valdez getting starts and even Willie Harris.

Reds are 11-3 when Valdez starts

[Warner2BruceTD]

Lineup prediction!

SS Cozart
CF Heisey
1B Votto
2B Phillips
RF Bruce
DH Frazier
LF Ludwick
3B Rolen
C Hanigan

Bye bye, Kris Negron.

I have no idea what Dusty does when Stubbs comes off the DL and interleague is over.

SS Cozart
CF Stubbs/Heisey
1B Votto
2B Phillips
RF Bruce
LF Frazier/Heisey/Ludwick
3B Rolen
C Hanigan
P -

I guess Frazier plays LF, and twice per week playes 3B. When Frazier plays 3B, Heisey/Ludwick play LF, and Heisey sees some time in CF to spell Stubbs.

And i'm guessing Willie Harris gets DFA again.

[Rudi]

I have no idea what the lineup is going to look like tomorrow night. Pretty sure Rolen will be in it, but theres no way he can immediately put him into the cleanup spot the way Phillips is hitting. That can't happen. Luckily we got 3 AL games before we have to figure out how this is going to work out. Fans are going to be rioting if :toddfather: doesn't play every day though.

[Rudi]

Scott Rolen coming off the DL and hitting right away sure does complicate things.

[Rudi]

http://mlbfancave.mlb.com/fancave/video.jsp?content_id=22404919&topic_id=19224580&fbid=HyMRnxmh8OM

[Rudi]

Reds 2011 First Round draft pick, Robert Stephenson, in his professional debut, threw 5 innings, allowed 0 earned runs, only 3 hits, walked only 1, and struck out 8.

Supposedly hit 97 on the radar gun as well.

[Rudi]

Heading into our 6 game homestand we are 2 up on the Pirates and 4 up on the WLBs. With the Twins and Brewers coming to town, I don't think 4 out of the next 6 is a reach for this team. Then the dreaded 11 game road trip out to the West coast before the All-Star break.

[Woy]

Heading into our 6 game homestand we are 2 up on the Pirates and 4 up on the WLBs. With the Twins and Brewers coming to town, I don't think 4 out of the next 6 is a reach for this team. Then the dreaded 11 game road trip out to the West coast before the All-Star break.

Stop it.

[Rudi]

Stop it.

Stay out of our thread :leake:

[Woy]

Stay out of our thread :leake:

You posted in ours first!

[Rudi]

Bray activated, Hoover optioned to Louisville

[Warner2BruceTD]

Rudi meltdown in 3, 2, 1.....