Congratulations to Brandon Phillips for winning the National League Gold Glove Award for second base.

An interesting take by Joe Sheehan from Baseball Prospectus via Sports Illustrated.com

A source inside Great American Ballpark stadium scoreboard operations has told me that the Reds will be replacing some (possibly all) of the dot-matrix board in Great American Ballpark this off season. This would include the inning-by-inning scoring area as well as the trivia/fun facts area to the far left of the board.

Alan Schwartz has a very good article in today's New York Times in which he writes about past World Series' that have been rained out and delayed.

For the week of May 9-15th, Jay Bruce has absolutely been crushing it here in Louisville, and so he was named to the top spot in this week's Baseball America's Hot Sheet List.

I really don't know any other way to describe last nights 3-2 victory over the Padres.

Chris Valakia (SS) was named the Player of the Week in the Florida State League 4-28 to 5-4. Valakia was 12-28, with a .480 AVG, hit two home runs, 4 RBI, and had a .750 slugging percent. A very strong prospect from the FSL, Valakia is starting to show his worth in a growing farm system.

Travis Wood (LHP) was named Pitcher of the Week. A 2-0 record, he pitched 13 innings, allowed 8 hits, 2 runs, 4 walks and 9 strike outs.

If their quotes are any sort of indication that the Reds have a little life left in them, Ken Griffey Jr. and David Weathers have some interesting words for the media and the team.

Sarasota city council members and team officials of the Boston Red Sox have been in "preliminary" talks about moving their spring training facilities and offices from Ft. Meyers to Sarasota in an effort to bring together their major and minor league teams.

The Boston Globe released figures from all 30 MLB teams and their ticket prices. The average MLB increase was 10.9%. Along with those figures is a "fan cost index" which factors in four tickets, 2 beers, four sodas, four hot dogs, parking, two programs, and two adult sized caps. We will look at the "fan cost index" a little later on, but today we will focus on the average cost of tickets.

In an article written by Hal McCoy with the Dayton Daily News, former Reds GM Wayne Krivsky discusses some of his decisions that he made during his tenure with the Reds.

Today we take a look at Edwin Encarnacion and try to figure out why he has become the media's whipping boy when trying to find what has gone wrong with the Reds so far this season.

Today the Reds announce the firing of General Manager Wayne Krivsky and the promotion of Walt Jocketty to the General Manager position as well as president of baseball operations. Jocketty, a former GM with the St. Louis Cardinals, was serving as special assistant to owner Bob Castellini.

Right handed pitcher Justin Lehr was named International League Pitcher of the Week ending Sunday April 13th.

Goodyear city council members will be voting today to allow funding for the $33 million dollar spring training facility in Goodyear, Arizona. The funding will allow the Reds to have a separate training facility with fields, offices, and other amenities while sharing the 10,000 seat stadium that is currently being built for the Clevland Indians.