Is Yonder Alonso Ready for the Cincinnati Reds, or a Year Away?

Posted: 19th March 2010 by Cliff Eastham in MLB
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I know the few weeks in spring training is insufficient time to make a detailed performance rating, but if not now, when?

Yonder Alonso is not striking fear in the Reds opponents, or his competitors at his prospective position(s).

Through games of Thursday night, Alonso is batting .125/.125/.188. That is well below any Mendoza line that has ever been drawn. He has scored one run with no RBI at all. His strikeouts are again a point of concern (as well as it is with other Reds youngsters). He has whiffed on five of 16 AB.

Joey Votto has first base locked up because of his two excellent years with the Reds. Any talk of putting Alonso at another position is growing dimmer by the game.

There is such a fusion of power and speed in left field that Jonny Gomes ...

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