Scouting Video: Jesse Winker, OF, #49, Reds (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 9, 2012
Jesse Winker is a guy I saw once. That’s all I got. Please enjoy the music while we ring your party.
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Baseball Beginnings on Robert Stephenson, No. 27, Reds
By Jen Marder
June 6, 2011
Today the Cincinnati Reds selected Robert Stephenson in the 1st round (#27 overall) in the 2011 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has been scouting Stephenson from the start of the draft cycle. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him through the year.
Read Robert Stephenson Scouting Report
Watch Robert Stephenson Video
Arizona Instructs Notebook, Part 1
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
October 30, 2010
Time to open the notebook and have a look at the Arizona Instructional League. These are players I saw that I liked for various reasons. Sometimes they are playing out of position from what they are typically listed as. We’ll go team by team. These aren’t going to be exhaustive because I didn’t see every single guy. These will be the guys who stood out or guys we have previously seen on this site. You also have to consider that guys are gassed at this time of the year. Many of these players have just finished their first full-length pro season. What you want is the pure tools, even if the guy is beat. In this environment, the tools won’t usually hide. To the backfields we go:
Leake Leaps and You’d Hardly Know it
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
August 24, 2010
“How goes it young one?” Jim Edmonds asks the rookie right-hander sitting quietly in the locker stall a few feet away. The rookie lifts his nose from his text messages and allows a small smile.
“Nothing much,” Mike Leake tells him.
There are seldom rookies who are rookies in name alone. Only a few of them come around every year, those with talent and perspective. Talent allows them to be here and perspective helps them stay. Simplicity. It’s the same game, oldest saying in the book. It doesn’t matter how good the other guy is. It matters how good you are.
2010 Draft Recap: Cincinnati Reds
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 11, 2010
It’s not like the Reds have a ton of money to spend, unless you’re a big-armed left-hander from Cuba. Now that they have some arms not named Harang or Homer that might actually be good long-term fits, the Reds used this draft to plug holes in other areas.
Baseball Beginnings on Ryan LaMarre, No. #62, (Cincinnati Reds)
By Jen Marder
June 8, 2010
Today the Cincinnati Reds selected Ryan LaMarre in the second round (#62 overall) in the 2010 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has been scouting LaMarre from the start of the draft cycle. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him through the year.
Watch Ryan LaMarre Video
Read Ryan LaMarre Scouting Report
Read Ryan LaMarre Q&A
Baseball Beginnings on Yasmani Grandal, No. #12, (Cincinnati Reds)
By Jen Marder
June 7, 2010
Today the Cincinnati Reds selected Yasmani Grandal in the first round (#12 overall) in the 2010 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has scouted Grandal. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him.
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Baseball Beginnings Exclusive: Aroldis Chapman Scouting Video
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
February 26, 2010
Aroldis Chapman got paid and now begins the process of molding a great pitcher’s body and a big arm into a major league starter. This is the first rung of the ladder in professional baseball for Chapman, and Baseball Beginnings has exclusive footage of Chapman’s first on-the-mound bullpen as a paid pro. Have a look and then we will break him down.
Pro-side Scouting Report: Yonder Alonso, 1B, Cincinnati Reds
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
January 10, 2010
Reds fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of first baseman Yonder Alonso, who stopped in the Arizona Fall League on the way to supplying some much needed punch in Cincinnati. The former Miami first baseman, who was a college masher, doesn’t strike me as a pure power bat. Rather, I felt Alonso will become a professional hitter with gap power and about 20-home run potential.
The Risk Factors of Aroldis Chapman
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
January 2, 2010
“Swish” was Bob Thurman’s nickname, long before it was a shoe logo. Thurman was a left-handed hitting outfielder and pitcher who played for the Homestead Grays in the last Negro League World Series in 1948. When he signed with the Kansas City Monarchs and eventually found his way to the major leagues with the Cincinnati Reds, he had changed his age more than his socks.
“I have had my age put back so many times,” an amused and demurring Thurman wrote, “I can’t remember my real age.”
There is humor in history, but a lesson to be learned for today’s Major League teams that pursue Cuban left-hander Aroldis Chapman.
