08-01-2019, 06:09 PM
(08-01-2019, 04:59 PM)NKURyan Wrote: Right, and it was evident from the get go that most of those guys were short term rentals. Lo and behold they were! Of those three "good starting pitchers" Gray's been good, Roark was average, and Wood just recently got into his first game of the year (and is only under contract through the end of this season). What exactly did those moves accomplish? It moved the Reds from "completely terrible" to "bad". For all the talk of how the Reds aren't that far out of it, they still have only the 20th best record in baseball right now. They're barely out of the bottom third of the league.
You don't really consider that an example of the Reds going all-in on winning, do you? And you expect any different this offseason?
Stop moving the goalposts.
You said they never make any moves for good players and that is 100% wrong. We improved our pitching staff from the worst in the league to one of the best and Gray and Bauer will both be back next year.
The Reds tried, but how would they know that our All-star 2B would be lost to injury and our star closer would forget how to close. Plus we have had a lot of bad luck in one-run games. The Reds have outscored their opponents by 29 runs. That is 6th best in the NL. Last year we were outscored by over 100 runs and were 13th out of 15 in the NL.
Personally I am enjoying this season a lot more than a 100 loss season with the "hope" of a winner in "a couple of years".
