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Rollie Hemsley: How a Hard Drinking Catcher Helped Make AA an International...
Particularly in the earlier days of the game, baseball had a well-earned reputation for hard drinking and living players. Because the players often socially mingled with the press, and because the...
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Picking the National League’s Top Starting Pitcher Cy Young Candidate
With the regular season winding down there are few playoff spots or post season awards that have been definitively decided. One of the most interesting sprints to the finish is that of the National...
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NL Cy Young Award Belongs to Clayton Kershaw
The 2012 American League Cy Young Award was really only a race between two pitchers but the National League Cy Young Award will likely have up to five different names listed at the top of voter’s...
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Picking the 2012 MLB Award Winners
With the focus in baseball being on the fantastic matchups being waged in the playoffs, the intense debate about the end-of-season awards has been tempered for the time being. It’s a temporary lull...
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Matt Holliday’s Slide Was Far From Bush-League
Last night’s NLCS game was full of action including a leadoff homerun, both pitchers hitting doubles, and the slide that no one would shut up about. In case you missed it or did not hear about it, in...
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Bryan Shaw Overlooked in Indians-Reds-Diamondbacks Trade
The Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, and Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-way trade yesterday that sent Shin-Soo Choo to the Reds, Trevor Bauer, Drew Stubbs, and Bryan Shaw to the Indians,...
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Cincinnati Reds’ Pitching Prospect Dan Langfield Bursts on to the Scene
The Cincinnati Reds have had success cultivating young pitchers in recent years, with Aroldis Chapman, Homer Bailey and Johnny Cueto all making major contributions to the big league team. This bodes...
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When Jay Bruce Pulls the Ball Good Things Follow
On May 7th the Cincinnati Reds slugging right fielder Jay Bruce was hitting a paltry .246/.296/.345 with a single home run in more than 150 plate appearances. His unintentional walk rate (after...
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Greg Cadaret Has Left His Mark On the Game
Left-handed pitchers are one of the most valuable commodities in baseball. Any southpaw with talent has a ready-made major league career ahead of them, which can bring them stardom, or at the very...
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How Real is Reds Pitcher Mike Leake?
The Cincinnati Reds sit four and a half games out of first place in the National League Central and if the season were to end right now they would land the final wild card spot in the playoffs. The...
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