Reds August 2023 thread

[CJD]

Also, as a side note, when everyone is healthy next year, our starting rotation battle is going to be extremely interesting.

We got Hunter Greene, Graham Ashcraft and Connor Phillips competing as right handers, with Nick Lodolo, Andrew Abbott and Brandon Williamson competing as left handers.

Connor Phillips is still just a prospect, so he may be the odd one out of this lineup, but it does offer a strange scenario where our rotation will be 60% lefties. I'm not sure how many teams can boast that. And I'm not sure if that's an advantage or a disadvantage. I guess it depends on the team you're facing.

If they're crazy, I wonder if they'd have some sort of 6 man rotation...but that doesn't seem like the right thing to do.

Then you got some hangers on that likely end up in the bullpen but can make spot starts, like Ben Lively, Lyon Richardson, Brett Kennedy, and Levi Stoudt.

We may have some really good pitching in the coming years, if everything works out in our favor.