Francisco Cordero News

This is the fourth in a series of positional analyses heading into Friday's start of the free-agent shopping season.

THUMBS UP to 500 local business professionals who worked with kids in 70 classrooms Thursday on the value of making smart financial decisions.

One of the bigger stories of last week was the Cincinnati Reds desire to cut payroll.

I tried to get a hold of Bob Castellini last week. But he was out of the country.

As much as any other position, the rankings for closera TMs see some drastic changes when you are looking at drafting for yearly leagues vs.

The Indians didn't have to look far to hire a pitching coach. Tim Belcher has been working for the team the past eight years as special assistant to baseball operations.

We're about a month into the offseason already and almost six weeks since the last installment of the Reds Inbox.

Got more questions? E-mail me with them. Question from Douglas: If you're Walt Jocketty today, do you think you call Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr.

I got week's worth of questions in a couple of hours after the previous post. They were popping in while I read a two-month-old People in a doctor's waiting room.

Bronson Arroyo earned his second consecutive win as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Nationals 3-0 in the second game of a four-game series at Great American Ball Park.

It has now been 14 years since the Cincinnati Reds and their fans last felt the excitement of postseason baseball.

Bryan Price is your new pitching coach. I dont have any wiener jokes. Hall o' Famer Hal doesnt seem tremendously excited that the Reds hired Bryan Price to be the new pitching coach He says he would have preferred Ted Power, who could jump ship for a better job in another organization, Mario Soto, who likely didnt want the job anyway, or former ...

Reds 2, Astros 1: Ramon Hernandez hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to give the Reds a road victory over the Astros on Friday night.

The Miami Heat on Monday signed free agent guard Carlos Arroyo. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not released.

After a season full of injuries, the Cincinnati Reds have to decide what to do next.

Baseball Prospectus' Pre-season Projection : 79-83, fourth place Current record: 77-84, fourth place Dusty Baker sure wouldn't mind having Barry Bonds at the fourth slot in this lineup.

The Pirates don't intend for Wednesday to be Kevin Hart's final start of the season, but the way in which Hart pitches against the Reds could certainly determine which start is.

"Absolutely," he said with mustard and gusto. "Absolutely. One hundred percent. I'd love to be a closer some day." If the Cincinnati Reds can trade Francisco Cordero in the off-season, ridding themselves of a $25 million burden on the payroll, Masset is the man.

As the sands run out of the hourglass that is the 2009 season, Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker has been taking stock of the good and the bad for the Reds.

Saturday represented the two-week anniversary of Ryan Franklin's last save. He marked the occasion with his second win in as many days, but also his third consecutive dropped save chance.