Reds May 2025 Thread

[samhain]

(3 hours ago)Timanky12 Wrote: Players change, coaches change, but the people putting the team together is the same.

This is a team of misfits that can’t play together. There is no I in team.  This is a group of individual players all trying to make a name for themselves and get out of Cincinnati for a big pay day. 

This team refuses to play the game the right way. Sacrifice, hit the other way, advance a base runner, make contact in critical situations. How many times have the Reds had a runner on 2nd or 3rd with no outs, and get hit to get the runner in. Have they even scored a run yet in extra innings, with a gift runner at 2nd base. This team is tied for 3rd last in strike outs with 449, that tells you everything you need to know. 

If we lose 3 at Cubs with weekend, we will be 9.5 games out of first and  the season is over. There will be no wild card from our division. 

I think Krall does okay considering the budget constraints he's tied to.  Hays, Lux, Trevino, and Singer were solid acquisitions.  

You can only do so much when you won't even sniff a league avg payroll.  This team has needed to add a RH middle of order bat for years.  Those guys aren't cheap.  You aren't getting one with Reds mentality unless it's through development, and that hasn't happened.

The pitching staff could be one of the best in baseball for a few years if a few things go their way.  It's not unimaginable at all.  They will likely have an embarrassment of young, controlled, top-end arms.  It will be so predictably Cincinnati if they come away from that era with nothing.  

The narrative in division was always the Reds being behind St Louis due to the Cards having a pitching factory on the farm.  Now the Reds literally have that and they still suck.  The Cards actually acquired players when they had to, but the ownership here is soulless and ball-less.