Reds Offseason Thread

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(12-23-2022, 01:52 PM)samhain Wrote: Myers is a borderline starter/4th outfielder on a decent roster.  Here he's top dog.  

I like Casali better than Luke Maile.  Maile is not good and Casali, at the least is good at handling a pitching staff.  

Moose was an overpay for this team.  This team has to overpay for guys like Moose, because they suck for long stretches and it costs money to convince players to come here.  This scenario will repeat itself with the continued cheapness and stupidity of the front office.  When the time comes, they will want to sign a significant free agent and they will overpay because Cincinnati is now a baseball sinkhole.  They'll cut bat as with Moustakas, lose millions, and with those millions also lost the ability to retain/aquire good players.

When will dumbass Bob figure it out?  Owning a good baseball team is expensive.  Probably too expensive to someone punching at his half-stepper billionaire weight.  You know what's even more expensive?  Being a sucky owner that pays washed and overrated players to decline/not play baseball.  The Reds will always have to participate in this cycle so long as lining Bob's pockets is the only goal.

Any owner that cannot afford a floor of 150mil in payroll should be purged from the league in humiliating fashion.  People like Bob harm the integrity of the sport in significant ways.  Baseball should make an example of this prick and others like him.  If they don't, they will continue to fall far behind football and basketball as the most popular and profitable American sports.  By the time they are done, Soccer and MMA with pass them as well.  All due to greedy players and stupid owners.

I have to agree with most of that. On a scale of 1-10 on how much do I believe the Reds have any chance of contending under Bob I'd go with -4