REDS APRIL GAMES THREAD

[*bengalfan74*]

(04-10-2022, 08:56 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: As much as I'm anti-DH, I do love the fact that Greene and Lodolo only need to focus on pitching and defensive responsibilities. Kind of like you said, I think that they're both going to be fun to watch.

If they had this bullpen with last year's squad, they would have threatened to make the World Series.

I understand having the "non-closer" staff and kind of like the "whoever is due" as your closer but one thing that I wish Bell would do more of is two innings per outing with his bullpen once the season gets into motion after the shortened spring training. It was nice to see Cessa and Santillan get more than an inning. I feel that as the season wears along he wears down his bullpen with so many changes and making so many guys warm up or pitch. That's one of the reasons that I've always said that of all of the MLB teams, Bell's Reds are the least prepared for extra innings because he almost always uses everybody before 9 innings are up. 

That's one of the things I've often wondered if they don't, at times, lose sight of ? Guy only has 240 live game pitches so he's still fresh. Yeah but, he has 17,000 warm up pitches.