Trade Deadline Thread

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(08-10-2023, 12:03 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I'm not "fit to be tied" that they didn't mortgage the farm for a couple rentals. As we have seen these rookies and younger players are lets be nice and say "streaky" at the plate.

Hopefully this is Votto's last hurrah, and we can free up money there. But I can't help but wonder what we really have in our pitching staff?

Greene and Ashcraft give me some hope but after that it starts tapering off. I believe Abbott could be a good un. But I need to see more. What will Lodolo be when he comes back? Is he for real? 

Williamson might be a decent #5 or Lively. But I'm not overjoyed with what we'll be bringing to the table next season from the mound. 

In short I'm just hoping they'll shore up the pitching staff this off season. And not just wing it HOPING. The rest of this season is a lets look and see what we have trial for me.

We do have to acknowledge Votto is having a great shortened season from a HR perspective.
He has just a third of the PAs that Steer has, but he has 13 HRs. Steer has 5 more HRs but over 300 more PAs.
Votto definitely would be at or near 30 HRs if he had played the whole year going near the pace he is.
If he was, he'd be in the Top 10 in the league.

With that said, I think it's about time, or he can work out a huge discount to have one more season. Reds really have an opportunity to get some improvements this offseason, and Votto's $$ off the books will go a long way in being able to do that.