Pitchers are meant to be ahead of hitters. Sluggers need at-bats to get into the rhythm of the season, and that takes time. Or at least that’s how the popular belief goes. But some Minor League hitters are proving they don’t need time at all to come flying out of

SAN DIEGO -- Stuart Fairchild is making a habit of jaw-dropping catches. His first victim of the season was Willy Adames. The second was his college buddy. His latest? Padres star Manny Machado, and this robbery snatched away a home run that looked eerily similar to a famous one you

SAN DIEGO -- A perusal of the Reds’ lineup doesn't show many heavy hitters. From the fifth through ninth spots, every batter owns a batting average below .200. A scan of the bench lacks immediate solutions. Tyler Stephenson and Christian Encarnacion-Strand missed the past four games since each was hit

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You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

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ARLINGTON -- Look past the first inning of Reds starter Andrew Abbott’s outing Sunday in the series finale against the Rangers, and you’ll see a perfectly decent, perhaps even dominant, performance. The problem for Abbott, in the Reds’ 4-3 loss at Globe Life Field, was that the Rangers made off

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ARLINGTON -- After a promising but inconsistent first month of the season, Reds starter Hunter Greene seemed to have distilled his approach down to the absolute essentials on Saturday. It didn’t require a complicated formula for him to throw seven dominant, scoreless innings in an 8-4 Reds victory over the

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