Archive for February, 2012

Bats Single Game Tickets On Sale Thursday

The Louisville Bats announced that single game tickets for the 2012 season at Louisville Slugger Field will go on sale Thursday, March 1 at 10 a.m. The Bats are also proud to announce that there has been no increase in single-game ticket prices for the 2012 season. Tickets to all home games range from $7 [...]

Reds News and Notes

Some news tidbits that involve your and my Cincinnati Reds: Bray’s sore groin not considered serious Cincinnati Reds left-handed reliever Bill Bray was restricted from workouts the past couple of days because of a sore left groin muscle. The injury is not considered serious, however. Bray has been getting treatment and was able to long [...]

Humbled Tomko ecstatic to be back with Reds

When pitcher Brett Tomko returned to the Reds earlier this month, he walked into the Spring Training clubhouse carrying something that the younger version of himself didn’t have during his first turn in Cincinnati. Now 38 and set to turn 39 on April 7, Tomko is overflowing with humility. “I think that my perspective changed [...]

Reds News and Notes

Some news tidbits that involve your and my Cincinnati Reds: Frazier prepared to fill multiple needs Todd Frazier knows he has to make himself valuable to cement a spot on the Reds’ 25-man roster, and to that end he was out there during workouts on Tuesday taking grounders at first base and third base and [...]

Latos considers trade to Reds a win-win

Mat Latos said on Tuesday morning that the Padres did him a favor this past offseason by trading him to the Reds. The right-hander is ticketed for the top of the Cincinnati rotation, much like he was in San Diego. The trade surprised and shocked Latos, he said before practice on Tuesday morning at the [...]

Blue Wahoos job fair draws more than 1,000 applicants

More than 1,000 enthusiastic job candidates tried out Monday evening for 250 seasonal part-time positions on the Pensacola Blue Wahoos’ hospitality team. Patient job seekers lined up shoulder-to-shoulder on both sides of the halls in the Sanders Beach-Corinne Jones Community Center. The line snaked, so long in a clover-like fashion, that at times it ended [...]

These are no lazy spring days

Outfield coach Billy Hatcher had a plastic dummy set up along the fence on one of the back fields Monday. Minor league instructor Darren Bragg was hitting fungoes to the outfielders. The ideal was for players to hit the dummy, who was playing the role of a second baseman, with the throw as the imaginary [...]

Reds News and Notes

Some news tidbits that involve your and my Cincinnati Reds: Phipps getting first crack at Reds camp Reds outfield prospect Denis Phipps was 18 years old when he was signed by the organization out of the Dominican Republic in 2004. Remarkably, he had only been playing baseball for one year at the time because he [...]