John Fay writes an article for the Enquirette today: The article starts off with the Phillips quote from the other day about “not believing in that OBP stuff”… It continues: Reds manager Dusty Baker said Phillips can become choosier at the plate. “I think he can be a little s...

Here are the results of our third round in the slow mock draft. To see the past rounds and commentary follow the links to round 1 and round 2. Round 3 : Pick 1(25) - @crookedpitch - Prince Fielder - He’s not a 50 home run guy, but I wouldn’t count out 35-40 homers with 100+ RBI. Fielder ...

If you want to continue being a Reds fan without going insane, do not read this article by Mark Sheldon over at MLB.com. I really want to be optimistic about 2009, but this piece is full of nuggets that should make any good Reds fan sick to his stomach. Some highlights: Hairston, Chris Dickerson, No...

This is going to be the shortest list so far as I rank the players by position. Why is that? Well, I’ll answer that, as well as many other questions that I know you all will ask before you can blow up my inbox with hate mail. B.J. Upton is not on this list, he’ll be in the outfield ranki...

I had a lot of fun last night participating in my first real draft of the year over at Mock Draft Central. The league is a 12 team roto league called Battle of the Fantasy Gods. Here’s how I did drafting from the 12th spot at building my 23-man roster. Remember that we have no bench spots, so ...

The National League had six MVP’s this week compared to the American League’s two. It was all hitters for the NL and all pitchers for the AL. Does good pitching beat good hitting, or vice versa? I guess we’ll find out next week in NYC at the All-Star game. Here are the week 14 fant...

Let me start by saying I understand perfectly well that the Tribe had to trade CC Sabathia. The season was over almost before it started, though most of us didn’t realize it until two or three weeks ago. So, with the Tribe unable to get his double-C on a dotted line, the big man had to go. Eve...

There isn’t a bigger story in baseball right now, than the ‘Who’s going to get C.C. Sabathia?’ sweepstakes. Is it going to be the big market Boston Red Sox, who lost Curt Schilling for the season (and maybe his career?), and has a very dicey DiceK right now? Is it going to be...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CLEVELAND 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 10 2 Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 4 6 0 W: Bill Bray (1-0), L: Masa Kobayashi (2-1) HR: Cin: Adam Dunn (9), CLE: Ben Francisco (1) Masa Kobayashi entered tonight’s game with two-outs in the eighth inning looking to put a stranglehold on the...

Welcome back to The Opposing Viewpoint, the place to learn more about the Mets’ opponents from the bloggers who write about them. The Mets return home after going 3-3 out west, with three games against the Reds scheduled at Shea this weekend (emphasis on “scheduled” - as of this af...