Reds July Game Thread 2024

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(07-14-2024, 02:43 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: After a half of a season, I'll gladly replace Benson's numbers with .244 and only 35% strikeouts.

Sure, but that's the minors. 

In the minors Benson was also a career .221 hitter and struck out 29.7% of the time, obviously neither of which are good and now we're seeing the results after a limited sample size of him being good in 2023. Generally there's some red flags that you can see if you look that will keep you from being blindsided. 

It's obviously not a guarantee that if you do really well in the minors you'll do well in the majors, but if you do poorly in the minors and then you do well in a small sample size in the majors, you have to ask yourself what changed and why that ability hadn't been shown prior. Baseball is a pretty strong you-are-the-back-of-your-baseball-card game.