Reds May 2025 Thread

[The D.O.Z.]

Bailey Falter. Cy Young candidate.

[cinci4life]

1st inning set the tone. Get a leadoff triple and not score, you probably aren't scoring at all.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

We're absolutely going to break that shutout record.

[Forever Spinning Vinyl]

Nick Martinez ERA throughout the season, 10 starts
6.00 L 0-1
5.91 L 0-2
6.06
6.00 L 0-3
5.40
4.68 W 1-3
4.19
4.23 L 1-4
3.66 W 2-4
3.43 L 2-5

Brady Singer ERA throughout the season, 9 starts
0.00 W 1-0
2.25 W 2-0
3.18 W 3-0
3.80
3.62 W 4-0
3.24 L 4-1
3.66 L 4-2
4.97
5.01 W 5-2

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(05-20-2025, 10:47 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Nick Martinez ERA throughout the season, 10 starts
6.00 L 0-1
5.91 L 0-2
6.06
6.00 L 0-3
5.40
4.68 W 1-3
4.19
4.23 L 1-4
3.66 W 2-4
3.43 L 2-5

Brady Singer ERA throughout the season, 9 starts
0.00 W 1-0
2.25 W 2-0
3.18 W 3-0
3.80
3.62 W 4-0
3.24 L 4-1
3.66 L 4-2
4.97
5.01 W 5-2

[*bengalfan74*]

So the lame ass can't score a single run offense rears it's ugly head again.

[CJD]

(05-12-2025, 03:52 PM)CJD Wrote: I am now curious what team in MLB history has been shut out the most in a single season.

If I believe Google AI, it was the 1908 St Louis Cardinals, who were shut out 33 times.

Apparently, the season was only 154 games in 1908.

The Reds have been shut out in 7 of 42 games, so they are on pace for 27 shutouts.

If we're going to break that record, we gotta ramp up our rate a bit.

8 shutouts in 50 games is a pace of 26, so slightly down over the last 8 games, although they were a 9th inning solo home run from Elly away from another 1-0 loss a week ago.

[Timanky12]

(Yesterday, 08:40 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: So the lame ass can't score a single run offense rears it's ugly head again.

This team is a mirage. It’s like being in the desert looking for an oasis, but when you get there, it’s not there. 

  You think they figured it out, get them on, get them over and get them in. Never seen a team so inept at making contact with a runner on 3rd with no outs. One game of playing the game the right way, and fall back to same problems. 

[CJD]

(Yesterday, 10:31 AM)Timanky12 Wrote: This team is a mirage. It’s like being in the desert looking for an oasis, but when you get there, it’s not there. 

  You think they figured it out, get them on, get them over and get them in. Never seen a team so inept at making contact with a runner on 3rd with no outs. One game of playing the game the right way, and fall back to same problems. 

simply put, they are the most .500 team ever made.

[TecmoBengals]

(Yesterday, 10:59 AM)CJD Wrote: simply put, they are the most .500 team ever made.

You made me laugh as you're spot on. You just ended the thread with a mic drop. Might as well wait to discuss the '26 season. 

[*bengalfan74*]

(Yesterday, 10:59 AM)CJD Wrote: simply put, they are the most .500 team ever made.

YEP

If they end up being over .500 I'll be surprised. And it won't be by much.

[*bengalfan74*]

(05-20-2025, 08:48 PM)The D.O.Z. Wrote: Bailey Falter. Cy Young candidate.

Made him look like Nolan Ryan in his prime.

[The D.O.Z.]

"Trust in Tito!"

Tito appears to be suffering from dementia, sitting his hottest bat and not using him in the ninth in a 1-0 game. I'm gonna start calling him Sleepy Tito until he gets his head out of his ass or his doctors switch up his medications.

[The D.O.Z.]

1 run in two days against a last place team. Reds Baseball! Can't wait for the fire sale. Krall is good at that.

[*bengalfan74*]

(7 hours ago)The D.O.Z. Wrote: 1 run in two days against a last place team. Reds Baseball! Can't wait for the fire sale. Krall is good at that.

Right, and again we get beat by a bottom feeder with our offense on vacation.

[Timanky12]

(7 hours ago)The D.O.Z. Wrote: 1 run in two days against a last place team. Reds Baseball! Can't wait for the fire sale. Krall is good at that.

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. 

[samhain]

(4 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.  

[c766]

Reds are 0-21 this year when trailing after 6 innings.

That is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to be that incompetent offensively.

Also, 8 Shutouts in 50 games- What a team!

[*bengalfan74*]

Just sad - Cincinnati gave up five total runs in their series against the Pittsburgh Pirates and still dropped two out of three games.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/cincinnati-reds-offense-reaches-historic-low-not-seen-since-1945/ar-AA1FezF3?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ASTS&cvid=5e38cee32f7c4c4f9b75cca09f0c247d&ei=30