 The Big Ten Conference made a brief effort to stop the "raid" of the conference of their star players, but nonetheless, the 18-year-old catcher out of Detroit agreed to a four-year contract with the Reds.At the Reds spring training camp in late March, murmurs started to surface that he was the "hottest thing" in camp.Landrith was a star in the sandlots of Detroit and at Michigan State University.