Graves flipped off the fans, not Aaron, as I remember.. I thought Aaron left with tears in his eyes.
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Denorfia or Larson
Me personally: Austin Kearns. I still believe he'll be a good OF, but just isn't going to approach the level I thought he would.
I also was a huge Josh Hall fan. Really thought the Reds had found something there that no one was paying attention to. Might have been useful if his health didn't betray him time and time again.
The Board in general: yeah, Denorfia is probably tops, but I remember a few years back a certain Jose Acevedo being heralded as a coming ace. One game thread in particular where the ACE in Acevedo was emphasized. Probably was a small, devoted group, but that one always stuck in my head.
I gotta believe it's Broussard.
No sarcasm at all, every year it seems we hear how the team needs a Greg Vaughn on it, and while hits 45HRs were nice he wasn't the only guy on that 99 team to have a great year, if he'd been around in 2000 I doubt his "leadership" would have resulted in that many more wins, besides..that 99 team although very exciting and along with JR one of the big reasons I became a Reds fan lost 4 of their last 5 to fail to even reach the playoffs.
Wayne Krivsky
If there had been an RZ in the 70's it would have been Dave Revering.
I think the Denorfia backlash is a little out of hand. :D
The prevailing opinion at the time was that Denorfia was a good bet to be a league average center fielder with the bat, cheap, and more than adequate defensively. I wish the Reds had taken the opportunity to play him to find out if he could handle a full season.
Currently he is hitting 283/365/326/691. I'd take that 365 OBP% in the leadoff slot, his defense in CF, and his $400K salary. (Provided the Reds had given him the opportunity to prove he could handle it.)
GL
My vote for most misunderstood player because he's both the most overrated and the most underrated Red depending upon which camp you're conversing with..............
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I don't get it. He put up great numbers that year, and by all accounts was a great, in-your-face leader. But I guess we will have to agree to disagree. (I will say, though, looking at his numbers, well let's just say there is a very strange and dramatic jump in performance, almost as if he suddenly found some substance that assisted him in hitting baseballs better.)
That whole Chris Denorfia/Chuck Norris thing was getting kind of weird after all.
1. Lopez
2. Denorfia
3. Kearns
4. Claussen
5. Greene
6. Coffey
7. Larson
8. Wagner
9. Dawkins
10. Rose Jr.