A day after Valentines, the Reds are showing second baseman Brandon Phillips the love by signing him to a 4 year contract worth an estimated $27 million to avoid arbitration and to lockup one of the brightest stars of the Reds’ roster.
A CFT favorite, Phillips came to Cincinnati near the beginning of the 2006 after [...]
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Seriously?
Dempster Thinks Cubs Will End Drought, Win World Series
“A year ago in spring training, it was Carlos Zambrano guaranteeing the Cubs would win the World Series.
Dempster made no guarantees, but he’s convinced the centurylong drought will end.
“I wouldn’t show up here and work as hard as I did and everybody work as hard as they [...]
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ESPN’s College Gameday, the basketball version of the football hype-machine, visited Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday as it prepared for the primetime match-up between Louisville at Georgetown.
The doors opened promptly at 9:30, a full hour and a half before airtime, with promises of doughnuts and orange juice for whoever showed up. I [...]
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New Reds
The Reds have singed a bunch of players to new contracts with invites to spring training.
Veteran Craig Wilson, who plays in the outfield and first base, was signed on Feb. 9th. Some see this move as a possible impetus to a deal that would involve Joey Votto packaged with some others in order [...]
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An article from this morning’s Courier-Journal reveals that Tonya Harding, made famous for the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, made an appearance at a Meade Co. bar.
This is embarrassing.
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Baseball Prospectus released their top 100 prospects list and the top spot wasn’t at all surprising. Jay Bruce, Baseball America’s Minor League Play of the Year topped the list.
1. Jay Bruce, of, Reds
9. Homer Bailey, rhp, Reds
21. Joey Votto, 1b, Reds
41. Johnny Cueto, rhp, Reds
Not bad. Four in the top 50, two in the top [...]
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CFT is back from our break after being in Colorado for about five days. That and the fact that there hasn’t been a lot of Reds news leading up to the final weeks before spring training opens in Sarasota.
In fact, we thought we would look at spring training specifically and the fact that the [...]
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