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Baker Apologizes For Snubbing Media

Reds manager Dusty Baker has apologized to the media for not talking to reporters following Saturday's loss to the Padres.

"Sorry about yesterday. I don't like to talk when I'm angry," Baker said.

Cincinnati had a closed-door meeting on Saturday.

"It was a much-needed meeting," pitcher Homer Bailey said. "We knew it was coming. Maybe there's a lot of excuses, but at the end of the day everybody needs to kind of look inside themselves and go out and play the game."

Via Cincinnati Enquirer


Morgan Returns To Reds As Adviser

Hall of Famer Joe Morgan has rejoined the Reds as a special adviser for baseball operations.

Morgan was a key player on Cincinnati's World Series teams in 1975 and 1976.

Morgan is the latest former Reds star to work with the ballclub. Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench has been a special consultant, and Eric Davis and Mario Soto work with current players as special assistants.

Via Yahoo! Sports


Volquez Blames Test Result On Fertility Drug

Reds pitcher Edinson Volquez is blaming his 50-game suspension for violating baseball's anti-drug policy on a fertility drug.

He insists that taking the drug was an innocent mistake.

"I don't think it would be something inadvertent," Gary Wadler, a board member of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said. "It's not a very effective drug for fertility. Testicles shrivel with steroid use, and this is used to get testicles back to normal. If it was (to have children), he would have requested a TUE (therapeutic use exemption)."

MLB is not permitted to publicly release which drug caused the positive test.

Via USA Today


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