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River Avenue Blues:  Curtis homers out in the desert

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Curtis homers out in the desert
River Avenue Blues — KLaw has some interesting nuggets from his recent tripout to Arizona, including this on Austin Romine: He has plenty of arm and his receiving was adequate, but I’m not sure about the bat. His swing works fine, but he has a big stride and a pretty healthy leak, getting his weight on his front foot early and closing his stance late, so his balance isn’t great and he doesn’t get as much power into contact as he could. He’s still just 20 years old and was young for his level this year, but he has some work to do as a hitter before we can talk about him as successor to Jorge Posada. ...

Starlin Castro ... A Future Star?
ChicagoCubsOnline.com — ... The CCO will have more in the coming days about Cubs' prospect Starlin Castro. He is getting rave reviews in the Arizona Fall League after a very good 2009 season. Keith Law from ESPN.com had this to say about Starlin Castro: ...

40-Man Roster News
Milwaukee Brewers Blog - Bernie's Crew — Adam McCalvy reports that Milwaukee added prospects Lorenzo Cain and Amaury Rivas to the 40-man roster to protect them from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft next month. Buried in the article is an explanation as to why Cain struggled once returning from injury this year: "When you play with an injury all year it can make you apprehensive, and it did," Brewers farm director Reid Nichols said. "He had doubts on his knee. He was probably playing a step short the whole time and had a little lack of confidence in what he could do physically. That's normal, when you can't go the way you want to go. There's ...