Reds July 2025 Thread

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(07-30-2025, 09:36 PM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: Ok, I should know this. But who the hell is their batting coach, and for how long? I swear to god my entire adult life they either put up 12 runs or look like they’re swinging toothpicks at butterflies out there. It’s insane.

This is his first year here as the hitting coach. He was with Francona in Cleveland for '22 and '23.

I'm not ready to blame him for our hitting woes and wondering why he hasn't fixed everyone in 5 months. I think we just have a lot of mediocre/flawed/bad hitters. At the majors level, a hitting coach is more for the day-to-day tweaks and consistency of mechanics, not really wholesale fixes of bad batters, as that's what the minors is for.

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Nice job by Barlow getting out of that.