Royals and Madden Have Blueprint The Reds Could Copy

[Hoofhearted]

To kind of give my opinion on this thread... I have said several time that this club needs a fresh approach to how it conducts its baseball operations. Cubs, Astros, KC, etc all those teams have recently heavily invested into sabermetrics. They don't just go out and sign former cardinals or guys that get alot of RBIs, for instance. We trade very well but the way the pick the low hanging fruit (vets to fill out roster), they severally lack. Basically, Cast and Walt don't seem to have a clue how to build a long-term successful ball club. Walts record past four season: 97 > 90 > 76 > 64. Seeing as how bad this club has looked last few years, and no major changes taking place (minus some low level assistants), it makes it seem even more true that either Cast doesn't care about building a long term good baseball team, or he's just clueless. Both are bad of course.