Reds 2015 season thread

[Hoofhearted]

(06-12-2015, 04:03 PM)kevin Wrote: Very few Reds are putting up stats worthy of being in the majors. Cueto, DiSciafani, Leake are the only 3 starters who have gave Reds innings and put up an ERA under 5 runs a game. Of course Chapman is putting up great stats as the closer. Hoover has been the other best reliever and Cingrani stats are OK. More needs to be seen of Parra, Adcock and Contreras, good stats but not many innings. Lorenzen, Mattheus, Moscot are under 5 runs a game but over 4. Iglesias just over 5 runs a game is border line. Bailey was 5 runs a game but was injured and then right back injured all season meaning Reds brought him back too soon. ....The hitters, Phillips, Pena, Votto, Frazier and Cozart are the only 5 batters over .250 with a good share of at bats. Suarez, DeJesus need more at bats on this team. Of the low batting averages, Bruce and Byrd have around 10 homers each, and Hamilton has the 25 stolen bases and youth on his side. Mesoraco low stats are like Bailey, the guy was injured while trying to play.

This leaves some players whos stats should keep them in the minors or just gone. Barnhart, Schumaker, Dominquez, Negron......pitchers Marquis, Badenhop, Diaz, Villarreal, Gregg......These 9 have been awful on the Reds in 2015.  

Since the Reds have such a huge lack of talent, talk of trading away good players and keeping the bad players to me is just going way too cheap. Any draft picks in 2015 and 2016 will be years away from playing in the majors. Reds better keep some players putting up major league worthy numbers for 2016. ...I can see trading Cueto who has had his share of arm injuries. I could see trading him to a play-off team who is willing to trade us one of the top prospects coming up in baseball. Most of the other trade talk I am dead set against. Cueto could take a top team to the World Series and I would expect a very top prospect for this trade.

I am wondering about our pitching coach and hitting coach. Also Price as manager.  Big Klu would have got Bruce out of his slump and be more help to Hamilton. These coaches must stink.

I'm looking forward to All-Star Game in Cincy....but I'm finding it hard to get behind a Reds team that everybody is excited about getting rid of all the players at mid season. That is hard to get excited about. If done, the Reds will field baseball at it's worst the rest of 2015 and into 2016.

You would have to first have some sort of analytical department that you could use the tell how bad these players are compared to others. They lack on developing an analytical approach to baseball. And I wouldn't get to excited about the all-star game. Check out DOC TML about how there are supposed to be 9 Royals players there