Cincinnati Reds bring back Chris Valaika as new Director of Hitting

The SB Nation search engine has long functioned like a blind librarian who’s too short to reach the top shelves. Prompt it and it will give you something, but odds are it’s not exactly what you’re looking for.

Running to Google instead, I typed “red reporter valaika” and was greeted with a couple fun throwbacks.

Here’s the inimitable BK with a Farmers Only Weekend Recap from early August of 2012 where Billy Hamilton swiped a trio of bags to push his remarkable season total to 125 for AA Chattanooga. We get some glorious Kyle Lotzkar mention, as well as nods to old Farmers Only legends like Daniel Corcino, Denis Phipps, Mike Costanzo, Steve “Too” Selsky, and the up-and-coming Jesse Winker with…