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Baseball America profiles Reds prospect Cody Reed

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Baseball America's J.J. Cooper recently released this great look into how Cody Reed has rapidly risen up the ranks of the best pitching prospects in all of baseball. It's a great read as well as a reminder of how quickly these prospects can go from skinny, projectable kids to fireballers who can strike out professional hitters.

Reds release Spring Training broadcast schedule

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As hard as it is to believe, Cincinnati Reds pitchers and catchers report to Goodyear, AZ in just ten days, and the first Cactus League game is just three weeks from tomorrow. Jamie Ramsey dropped the Spring Training broadcast schedule on Monday, noting that four games will be televised by FS-Ohio (including the first two games of the preseason against the Cleveland Indians). They'll also be on TV for a matchup with the World Series champion Royals on March 15 as well as a tilt with the Colorado Rockies on March 25. Mark your calendars accordingly!

Reds hire Lou Piniella as senior advisor

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If there's one thing the Cincinnati Reds have been good at for the last two years, it's been playing baseball bringing back hearty memories of the good old days. That trend continued on Friday when it was announced that they'd agreed to bring on former manager Lou Piniella as a senior advisor, as WCPO's John Fay reported on Twitter. Piniella took over the Reds in 1990 in the wake of Pete Rose being banned from the game, and promptly led the franchise to its most recent World Series title. He left after a 90 win season in 1992, managed the 2001 Seattle Mariners to a ridiculous 116 win season, and owns a career record of 1835-1713 in 23 years as a big league manager (and that came after a Rookie of the Year Award and All Star appearance as part of an 18 year playing career). There's no doubt he brings experience to the franchise. Welcome back, Lou.

Pete Rose Reds Hall of Fame Induction Speech

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Pete Rose's Reds Hall of Fame induction speech* = comedy gold *with a laugh track added https://t.co/pETxbPqtkn— RT Ohio (@RT_Ohio) January 20, 2016

with an added laughtrack...

Brayan Pena Article

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I still hate that he's a Cardinal now, but if this isn't a great story about how he got here in the first place.

Our Long, National Nightmare is Over: Harold Reynolds out as Lead Fox Announcer

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If you are a person who likes baseball, owns a television, has ears and a human sized brain to go with them, this should be particularly exciting news to you: Harold Reynolds is out as lead analyst for Fox's national broadcasts. Tom Verducci, who is less bad (and actually pretty all right, all told) is also out, but if Verducci had to get caught in the cross fire in order for Reynolds to be taken down, so be it.. Rumor has it the network will replace those two with John Smoltz, who along with long time play-by-play lead Joe Buck, will now be the voice of the MLB on Fox.

Votto to the Cardinals? Really?

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A Cardinals blog suggesting they trade for Joey Votto based on the return for Todd Frazier...makes no sense.

More Frazier Rumors

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Seems unlikely, but who knows?

Reds to non-tender Mattheus, LaMarre, Villarreal

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C. Trent Rosecrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that the Cincinnati Reds will not tender contracts to the trio of Ryan Mattheus, Ryan LaMarre, or Ryan Pedro Villarreal. It's hard to fault them for any of the decisions, as none of the three had proven to be valuable big leaguers (or, in cases of LaMarre & Villarreal, minor leaguers).