June Reds game thread

[kevin]

(06-23-2022, 08:13 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Greene gave up 3 homers and 6 runs today in the 10-5 loss. Greene leads the majors in HR's allowed with 20.

I have Greene and Ashcraft on my Fantasy Team, and they are quickly becoming my 2 worst pitchers.  They are serving up some real batting practice.  I will wait to see what Ashcraft does next and does he get clobbered.  I know Bell says Greene has nothing more to learn in the minors, but the Greene Losses and Home Runs are on pace to be 20 Losses and giving up more Homers than any MLB Pitcher in 2022.  Ashcraft is lately pitching just as bad or worse, but with no strikeout upside.  So it's hard to look at this and agree with Bell that they shouldn't be back in the Minors developing at their young ages, and admit they were brought up to soon.  

Greene is finding out that Major Leaguers can hit a fastball,  and he needs much better other pitches.  The Minors in the perfect place to work on those other off speed and sinking and sliding pitches.   Greene can throw it 105 MPH and it won't matter because Major League Hitters can hit the fastball if that is all you got.  The Dodgers are not the only team against Greene who looked like they were in batting practice clobbering every pitch.  Again, Ashcraft lately has been serving up batting practice.  I don't see what Greene or Ashcraft are gaining or learning from getting clobbered, and The Reds could be ruining 2 good young pitchers, as The Reds have ruined many young pitchers rushing them up too early over the decades. 

I don't know what the Reds will do, but I'm going to have to either stop using Greene and Ashcraft, or just drop them into Fantasy Free Agency all together. The Greene rollercoaster of bad, and then player of the week, and then bad again. His season stats are so bad, I can't hold on to them just because I see better days ahead, if those better days are in 2023 not 2022. This is not just The Dodgers, other teams are beating their brains in. The Reds may need to send them both to Louisville to be more helpful in 2023.