Reds July 2025 Thread

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(07-10-2025, 10:25 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Instead of being mad that they didn't win the series against the 'lowly Marlins', I'm content that they split with one of the hottest teams in the league. I was concerned that we were going to watch our All-Star pitcher get upstaged by Sandy Alcantara and blow this series, but SA threw a lot of flat pitches compared to his normal pitching style and Andrew Abbott is Andrew F'n Abbott.

Lodolo was pretty impressive today, but the bullpen squeaked by. Only one hit but four walks . . . gotta clean that up.

Six runs off of a solo shot and eight singles. Very un-Reds like as was the 3 for 8 with runners in scoring position.

I'm expecting to win two out of three from the Rockies . . . a sweep sure would be nice, though, because it would put them at 5 games over .500 for the first time all season.

While it's nice they ended up getting a split, unfortunately they are 3.0 games out of the WC with just 3 games left till the ASB.
They would have to win every game and the Giants to lose every game (they could, they play LAD) and the two teams between them (STL, SD) to fall behind the Reds too.
While they're still clearly in the race more than halfway through the season, it'd be nice instead saying "they're so close to the WC, just X games back" to say "they're in the WC right now, keep it!"

We've been seeing this with the Reds the past few years where they sit right around .500 into July and we keep hoping they turn the corner, but they never do.
Last year, they were just 1 game under .500 as late in the season as Aug 14, but they just couldn't quite get there.
Year before that, they got as high as 10 games ABOVE .500 on July 8 (2nd to last game before ASB) and in the driver's seat for the postseason and still ended the season just 2 games above .500 missing the playoffs.

Hoping this year is different, but with what we've seen so far, I'm not confident it happens unless they make some trades between the ASB and EOM July.
An everyday RF who is a proven hitter, 1-2 quality RPs, and maybe 1 SP would help a ton.