Author Doug Gray

One of the things that come in my yearly Prospect Guide is spray charts for the hitters that rank among the Cincinnati Reds Top 40 prospects. It's one of my favorite things to look at and it's really the only p... Read More...

I have written all about how little minor league baseball players get paid in the past if you want to read about it. To make it short, they get paid less than minimum wage. Several former players have gone forw... Read More...

It's been two weeks since we last looked back on how the minor leaguers were performing in winter ball, but today we are going to focus mostly on one guy that is performing very well. Felix Perez has been hi... Read More...

Remember the old saying "don't shoot the messenger", well, remember it right now. The Cincinnati Reds big league club has several holes to fill and as of the writing of this, they haven't done much to fill t... Read More...

Last week I took a look at the scouting side of things and where it can give you big benefits over the scouting side of things to help a team make better decisions on player evaluations. As noted last week, eve... Read More...

Over the next two weeks I will be looking at the differences between the scouting side of baseball evaluation and the statistical side of baseball evaluation. There aren't really organizations out there anymore... Read More...

Last week I completed the Cincinnati Reds Top 25 Prospects List over at my site. If you missed out on that, go check it out. While the regular season and playoffs are over for Major League Baseball there is ... Read More...

Last week I looked at where the hitters in the Cincinnati Reds system excelled and struggled. This week I will look at the starting pitchers and next week I will wrap things up by looking at the relievers. To d... Read More...

This week I decided to take a look back on the hitters from the farm system in the 2014 season and see where they struggle and excel in certain offensive categories. I limited things to players with 150 plate a... Read More...

Today is the day that kicks off fall/winter league baseball as the Arizona Fall League gets underway this afternoon. Two weeks ago I took a look at the various leagues that take place in the offseason. Last wee... Read More...

Each fall since 1992 Major League Baseball has held the Arizona Fall League. It is the only current stateside fall or winter league (there used to be a Hawaiian Winter League as well, but it shut down after 200... Read More...