Frazier and a little Yonder
From the Honolulu Advertiser:
Article about Reds farmhand Todd Frazier and his past in the Little League World Series…also this,
His bat is sizzling in HWB. Through yesterday, he was seventh in the league in hitting at .355. He is tied for the league lead with nine RBI, is second with five doubles and second with a .613 slugging percentage.
And it explains why the Reds #1 pick hasn’t shown up in the box scores…
Fellow Reds farmhand Yonder Alonso, a first baseman, joined the BeachBoys Sunday. In his HWB debut, he went 1 for 4. Alonso was the seventh overall pick in the June draft out of the University of Miami. He played in just six games with High-A Sarasota, batting .316 with a double and two RBI.
Wonder why it took him 2-3 weeks to get to Hawaii?
October 7th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Didn’t I read somewhere that Alonso was assigned to report to the Instructional League first? (Maybe to log some time at 3b? Am I remembering any of this correctly?) I doubt that anyone would want to put off going to Hawaii any longer than necessary.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Yeah, but I got the impression that he’d left there a couple of weeks ago…
October 7th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Todd Frazier is a great prospect. There was so much hype the last two years about Bailey and Bruce that I kind of forgot about him for awhile. He’ll for sure start in AA next year, right? Which could mean we might see him September. He could also maybe be a valuable trading chip this winter. Somebody on mlbtraderumors.com the other day mentioned how EdE and Frazier might get us Delmon Young.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Kevin - I think EdE alone gets you Young.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Right…I looked at his numbers a little bit more and I don’t even think it makes sense to trade him since moving EdE to left field is like the same thing.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Wonder why it took him 2-3 weeks to get to Hawaii?
He doesn’t like to fly?