Reds July 2023 thread

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(07-02-2023, 01:55 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I think Bell is coaching to protect egos at the moment. Moving India down would be a knock on his confidence after he apparently already felt a little weird when he heard fans discussing trading him because of unproven rookies coming up.

I think from a gameplay standpoint, moving India down is the objectively correct thing to do, but from a team management and locker room standpoint, Bell may fear damaging India's ego.

Also, it's worth mentioning that India had a similar issue last season where he was pretty cold in the month of June.
9 for 54, .167/.250/.296/.546
But he rebounded in July, .290/.365/.527/.892.
And, as a rookie, India batted .319/.470/.527/.998 in July. It was basically the month that caused him to win the rookie of the year.

So who knows. Maybe India bounces back in a big way in July. 

He started the month off well with a grand slam after all

As for Votto, I don't know what's going on with him. I feel bad because he's the face of our franchise, but he may be done. I still think they should give him a few weeks to acclimate, but it is discouraging, for sure. His OBP is still .300 though so...it's not like he's a dead spot in the line up. 5 BBs and 2 HBPs will help bolster a subpar batting average through 10 games.

India is making good on my prediction thus far.

I don't know why he is so bad in June and so good in July...but 4 days in, he already has 3 home runs haha...He was 0-4 yesterday, but I saw a stat that 3 of his outs were "hard hit balls" (95 mph+), they were just straight at fielders. 

Looking it up on statcast (which is an incredible source of information, by the way), yea he had 95 mph grounder up the middle, a 97.7 mph fly out that went 388 ft and a 98.1 mph line out/ground out (it's a LA of 9 degrees, which is technically a ground out, as the guideline is 0 to 10 grounder, 10 to 25 line out, 25 to 50 fly out, but my memory of it was a line out).

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/jonathan-india-663697?stats=gamelogs-r-hitting-statcast&season=2023

I think he's starting to get right and today has been a realization of that progress.

Here's hoping he keeps it going!