Today marks day four of our series highlighting current MLBers who hail from hometowns located in (or near) Reds country. As we continue our quest to assemble the best 25-man roster possible, we now turn out attention toward the infield.
In case you missed the first few posts in the series, here is some info to help better detail what we're trying to accomplish here:
The main goal in making this squad is to only choose players who come from within the geographical reach of Cincinnati, but without crossing too much into the regions of other MLB franchises (sincere apologies to the Indians, Cardinals, Pirates, Orioles, or Braves if I did).
The following is the general criteria I used when assembling the roster:
**The player(s) must currently be active in the MLB ranks
**The player(s) must have either been born, raised, attended high school or attended a university in any of the following states: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia, or Tennessee....
Found January 15, 2012 on
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PLAYERS:
Kevin Youkilis,
Clint Barmes,
Dan Uggla,
David Wright,
Todd Helton,
Brandon Inge,
Mark Reynolds,
Scott Rolen,
Craig Counsell
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Indiana State Sycamores
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Indiana State Sycamores
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