Reds August 2023 thread

[*bengalfan74*]

(08-03-2023, 10:18 AM)ochocincos Wrote: That's kind of the issue for me.

The Reds have enough cheap contracts they should have been easily able to take on more payroll this year once they saw they were at the caliber to compete.
We don't know what the subsequent years will be, as they may be letdowns. Remember how excited we were for the 2020 and 2021 Reds because they were finally building momentum? And then the Reds up and decided to just throw in the towel again and they were a bottom feeder in 2022. They've been coming in below expectations ever since that damn NL Divisional Series against the Giants in 2012.

One would logically think how difficult it is to actually get to the postseason and especially advance in the postseason when you got teams like the Dodgers and Yankees spending over $200 mill in salary when your team typically only does around $100 mill. You should (I would think, logically) want to take every opportunity when they arise if you see your team doing well because it may be years before you'll be good enough to compete like that again.

Instead, this feels like Mike Brown adding talent in the Marvin Lewis era - "Oh, we'll be good enough, just need another year to grow and we'll be there!...Oh, we fell short again? Well, always next year!"

I hear you and don't disagree. You have to strike while the iron is hot. But it's a balancing act to some degree with us as a small market team. I mean I didn't want to auction off all the young talent for a couple top shelf pitchers.

But in the end they're probably going to have to give somewhere. I just hope they're smart and do it soon. All these guys will be Yankees, Dodgers, Astros, Red Sox in a few years.