Homer Bailey news, as well as news on a new ST complex

HOMER UPDATE: Homer Bailey has thrown 137 2/3 innings this season, and that's about as many as the Reds had planned for him.

But there are no plans to shut him down.

"He's going to pitch through the playoffs," Krivsky said.

Any chance he'll be up with the Reds in the September?

"I don't know," Krivsky said. "I'm not ready to say yes or no."

But it's probably a long shot.

Jason Standridge and Gary Majewski, currently in the DL, should be healthy and pitching by Sept. 1. Krivsky said Grant Balfour, on the DL all season, could possibly pitch in September as well.

So a few weeks ago, it was not going to happen and now its "I don't know"? Very interesting. Oh, and Bailey has pitched 127.2 innings, probably just a typo that was missed.

DOWN SOUTH: Efforts to build the Reds a new spring training stadium in Florida got some help Monday.

City commissioners in Sarasota voted to earmark $9 million for a new facility that would replace Ed Smith Stadium, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

The Reds, who moved their spring training and Florida Instructional League operations to Sarasota in 1998, are prepared to sign a 30-year lease if the new stadium is built. The current lease expires in 2008.

This is good news, for a while the city was not going to budge on where they were set, but hopefully things can get back on the right track with this.

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