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Given that Stephen Strasburg ($245 million/seven years) and Gerrit Cole ($324 million/nine years) signed for record-breaking deals, it was always going to be unlikely that the Cincinnati Reds were ever realistically targeting either starting pitcher to bolster our rotation. Apparently the Reds were runners up to the Philadelphia Phillies ($118 million/five years) offer to Zack …
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The Reds Front Office are not messing about this offseason with an audacious swoop to secure the services of one of the best free agent sluggers, Mike Moustakas. I’m not interested in whether it was an overpay or if they could have persuaded the 31-year-old to agree to a shorter deal, or even if the …
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Third base is a good position for the Reds offensively, so this was the toughest one so far. We had three third basemen with wRC+ above 100. Although Scott Rolen was 35 years old when the decade started, he played 290 games for the Reds and was an All-Star twice in the three final years …
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Barring a big-money offseason signing, second base at Great American Ball Park will be manned by a combination of Freddy Galvis and Josh VanMeter. Fine players, but perhaps not All-Star quality. Brandon Phillips, is unquestionably the Reds star second baseman of the 2000s. In 1,614 games, DatDude hit 191 homers with 196 stolen bases while …
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Surely there cannot be a more obvious choice in the whole of baseball. Joseph Daniel Votto is not only the best first baseman the Reds have had this decade, he’s arguably been the best hitter in the whole game over the last 10 years not named Mike Trout. Let’s take a look … Home runs: …
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I was quite surprised to see that, over the last 10 years, the Reds are an average team behind the plate, ranking 16th out of 30 teams both offensively and defensively. To be honest, I didn’t think we were that good. Going deep 48 times, Devin Mesoraco hit the most homers but he also had …
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So the 2019 season is at an end. The Reds finished 75-87, although our Pythagorean record suggested the 701 runs scored and 711 runs conceded should have equated to a 80-82 win-loss record. It was still sub-.500 whatever way you cut it. Here is the season in eight stats: Home record: 41 – 40 Away …
The good news about the three-game series vs. the Mets was that two of the games were at UK-friendly times. Saturday’s match, which Cincinnati won 3-2, with Raisel Iglesias securing his 34th save of the season, was easily the best. On Friday, Luis Castillo tossed a gem, only allowing three hits. Two of which the …
2-1 series vs. Diamondbacks Reds hadn’t won a series since the end of August. And that was against the Marlins (no offence), and no offense was the trouble in this series. On Saturday, Reds became the first team in the modern era (that’s around 100 years) to have lost while only allowing one base runner. …
Who knew that the Reds hadn’t won a game in Seattle since 2007? I didn’t. I’m indebted to the Twitter account @HeyGingersaurus who advised that the Reds went 1-2 in 2007 and 0-3 in 2010. The 2013 and 2016 series were played in Cincinnati. Despite this, the Reds salvaged one game of the series, with …
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