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(08-05-2025, 10:48 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: [ -> ]So looking up the trades during a commercial, this popped up about the Singer/India trade. Until about a month ago, I did not know that Singer was signed through next year. I thought that they were both in their FA seasons. This trade is becoming a blowout. India had nowhere to play on this roster and not mentioned in the article is that Lux is hitting .271. A different trade, but he was India's replacement.
https://blogredmachine.com/best-trade-reds-made-this-year-wasnt-even-deadline-deal

You jinxed it.

How do you not throw a strike to a freaking .118 hitter???

8 pitch second. I think the ump missing that strike 3 which would have ended the first much sooner screwed Brady up.

Runners on 1st and 2nd - one out - pitcher goes into the stretch position
Average right handed MLB hitter to self:
"If he throws anything inside, I'm taking it unless I can inside/out it to the right side. He'll most likely throw me something hard and low on the inside, but might throw me a slider to chase it off of the plate. I doubt that I'll see the change up here, but it's a possibility . . . he's starting to deliver the pitch . . . looks like a fastball on the edge of the plate . . . I'm swinging to line it to right center!"

Runners on 1st and 2nd - one out - pitcher goes into the stretch position
Austin Hays:
"I'm ####ing swingin'!"

I seriously do not understand this team.

3.5 games behind, 46 games left

Luckily, the Mets are pulling a Mets and freefalling late in the season, going 2-8 in their last 10.
Otherwise, Reds would be 4.5 games out of the WC, as SD has gone 8-2 in their last 10.

While freefalls like this do happen, you can't bank on it to get into a playoff spot, so the Reds have be focused on winning 4+ games above .500 the rest of the way out if they hope to get into the WC, which means they will need to go at least 25-21 the rest of the way.
They should really be aiming for 30 wins the rest of the way though, but they are far too inconsistent for that to happen, barring a miracle.

3 strikeout inning is cool, throwing 27 pitches to do it is not.

Got something cooking here. Lets go Fraley, make it hurt.

...bases loaded, 0 outs.... 1 run (off a double play).

Still don't approve of the lowering of decent starts to being 5 innings, but that said since I assume he's done at 88 pitches, that's still a quality showing by Burns. 5ip, 1er. Managed to have less hits+walks than ip, too, which is nice to see.

(08-08-2025, 09:08 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: [ -> ]Still don't approve of the lowering of decent starts to being 5 innings, but that said since I assume he's done at 88 pitches, that's still a quality showing by Burns. 5ip, 1er. Managed to have less hits+walks than ip, too, which is nice to see.

Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan are currently at a bar, laughing at that statistic as we speak.

Stephenson having a nice night! Huzzah for another lead.

(08-08-2025, 09:15 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: [ -> ]Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan are currently at a bar, laughing at that statistic as we speak.

I have to eat my words. He went back out for the 6th, I didn't think he would with 88 pitches. Then a quick 2 outs with just 5 pitches.

EDIT: And there's out 3 with another 4 pitches. Heck of a start for Burns!

(08-08-2025, 09:15 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: [ -> ]Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan are currently at a bar, laughing at that statistic as we speak.

Seaver and Ryan didn't have dumbass parents running them thru 365 day a year travel ball and blowing their arms out before puberty.  Those guys probably didn't even throw offspeed until high school.

Ugh.

That's a team loss, but Santillan choked that shit away.

That's just an incredibly weak showing. I haven't ever trusted Santillian, but you absolutely can't afford to be blowing 8th inning leads and losing two in a row to the 5th worst team in MLB Pirates.

We're cooked. On to football season. The Pirates for Christ's sake. They should be gaining right now and they're circling the drain.

WOW can't beat the lowly Pirates. I think this article pretty much sums up Reds problem. And it's one most of us have been saying.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/cincinnati-reds-power-shortage-exposes-flawed-hitting-philosophy/ar-AA1K8kOn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ASTS&cvid=42799595a7d44b86ab0fce77e17f07f3&ei=24