12-14-2016, 11:57 AM
(11-26-2016, 01:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: McKeon took over a bteam that had a lot of great players who hit and pitched well before he ever arrived.
I agree that good managers can get good resuklts from good players. But no manager can magically turn a scrub into a star.
The Reds roster is not loaded with good players who are underachieving. The Reds roster has a lot of players that just are not that good.
He took over a Florida Marlins team that was in last place, fired their manager, hired him and in same season he turned around the last place team and won World Series with pretty much the same players who were in last place the first few months. I don't know where you get that they were great in last place and manager just fired.
Now I agree the Reds roster has players that are just not that good. The Reds are making no off season moves. This means the highlight of the year will be the Pete Rose Statue Ceremony and more talk about the 1970's, while the Reds clinch last place early again this year. For people that want Coach Lewis fired so much who has had 5 straight play-off seasons going into this year, I'm amazed at this man love people have for Price who is in last place every year. I'm tempted to throw the race card and maybe it is in the deck. I'll keep it in the deck and just say Price really has stunk up the place and 2017 looks like more of the same. People forget Reds were a play-off type team when Price took over. He couldn't win with those players and he sure won't win with sad sacks he has on the field now. No pitching and darn little hitting and a lousy manager add up to last place again.
Reds ownership is going to try to get by on that Pete Rose Statue and talking about how great the team was over 40 years ago. If that sells tickets. more power to them. I wouldn't even pay to have Fox Ohio to watch this team. You actually have to pay extra cable money to watch this team flounder in last place, and even then they play so bad they are hard to watch.
Reds.com says they are considering trading young Billy Hamilton for some burned out dope head relief pitcher. That sounds like a classic Reds move. Trade one of their best young players for crack pipe Jones.
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