Reds September Games Thread

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(09-14-2023, 08:42 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Just incredible

And you can go on with the starters:

This is among starters with 3 or more starts.

We don't have a starter with double digit wins. We only have one starter with an ERA below 4.00  We have had 17 different starting pitchers this season. Brandon Williamson's story is just beyond all logic as far as us winning games he's started after getting clobbered to start the game.

It's just crazy that we're still in contention with this entire pitching staff.

Our starting pitching, much like our bullpen, has been cobbled together with whatever players we had on hand to get us through the day. The injuries we've sustained at the starting pitching position have been insane. 

Lodolo's season wiped out
Greene missing months
Ashcraft missing months
Ben Lively and Brett Kennedy, both of whom had not started against since 2018, had to make some starts for our team due to these injuries and even then, Lively ended up injured multiple times. 
Luke Weaver was forced to start 21 games for us because of all the injuries our rotation sustained.
Abbott, Williamson, Phillips, Stoudt, Richardson, Kennedy, and Spiers, all rookies, had to make real starts for this team (not "starts" that were actually just bullpen games like Antone, Cruz and Law's 4 combined "starts"). That's 46 starts by rookies. Not record breaking by any means, but that's so many rookie starts, especially when many of those prospects were not ready for MLB action but were needed simply because of lack of arms.

With all of that turmoil, we are still sitting in a playoff spot with a little over 2 weeks of baseball left to go.

This team has all the potential in the world.