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After a bleak 0-2 start, the Cincinnati Reds kicked it in gear and won five of their next six, before losing two straight to the Florida Marlins At the 10-game mark in 2010 there are some things that need to be noted. First: The seven-time Gold Glove winning third baseman, Scott Rolen leads the team with three errors. He is the only Reds player to have committed more than one miscue. Second: Joey ...

  Another Jackie Robinson  Day in the MLB has come and gone. Wait a minute, it is still going. That's right, it is such an awesome dealie that the Cincinnati Reds get to do it twice. Since the Pittsburgh Pirates were off yesterday, the Reds get to wear their stylish No. 42's again tonight. I wrote an article for Bleacher Report last year throwing my two cents worth of opinion on the over-celebrated status of ...

What is up with Jorge Cantu? He now has at least one hit and one RBI in each of the Florida Marlins' first nine games. That is a record. That's right, he is the first player to accomplish that in the history of Major League Baseball. Mike Piazza of the New York Mets has the longest streak of a hit and an RBI. On Jun. 14, 2000, Piazza went 2-for-5 with three RBI ...

After beating the Florida Marlins 10-8 in 11 innings, the 2010 edition of the Cincinnati Reds could rightly be called the "Cardiac Reds." It is hard for me to watch the games in their entirety because it makes me feel like I am going to have another stroke. But it is like a train wreck—you can't turn away. You just can't. The Reds have won all five ...

The Reds season is now one week old, and positive things are already transpiring. To begin with, they are four up and three down, which is a real good thing, considering their first two series were against the top two finishers in the NL Central in 2009. Scott Rolen is beginning to look like the Rolen of 2004 with the Cardinals. He finished that season with an OPS+ ...

Coco Cordero is already in mid-season form. Wait a minute, that is not a good thing, at least not in my mind. As he did countless times last year, he was called on in the ninth to protect a lead, this time two runs. He pitched horribly and yet was rewarded with a save. Show me some justice! If you check the box score you will ...

Technology is a good thing, right?Can it become overdone? I mean, do we know when to say "enough"?Case in point: Fox Sports pitch tracker "FoxTrax". It shows the overall speed of the pitch, the speed at a certain distance from the plate, measurement of descent, measurement of break, and the temperature of the ball (just kidding about the last one, but why not?)That is more pitch delivery 411 than ...

There are some players who own a particular team or pitcher. Some are so good against a particular team that the odds of getting them out seem as low as being struck by lightning. I have researched and found, by each position, the active players who have had the best success against the Reds. Let's do this. We will start with the pitcher and work our way around.   Pitcher Roy Oswalt   23-1,  2.58, 206 IP, 177 ...

With Opening Day only six days away, I thought it would be appropriate to see what the record books have to say about the Cincinnati Reds on the first game of the year. At the present time, adequate records only take us back to 1952. This game will be against the St. Louis Cardinals against whom the Reds are 8-7. Since 1952 the Reds are 30-27-1 in their ...

I am an "Old School" guy, and proud of it most of the time. In fact, I go so far back, I can recall when rainbows were still in black and white, and televisions were run by gas. When it comes to selecting All-Anything teams, I always catch it from some (usually young) brainiac who tells me that I can't compare Pete Rose to Ty Cobb or Chase Utley ...