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Old 03-12-2009, 02:35 PM   #13
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Re: Fan Graph's baseball has Reds as 24th best organization

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Originally Posted by bucksfan2 View Post
The article seems to downgrade the Reds because of Jocketty and his opposition to fully embrace the analytical aspect of baseball.



I guess what confuses me is he did this in St. Louis. He built a winner and a team who has been relevant for almost every year over the past decade. To me this seems more like sour grapes towards Jocketty and his ways.

I give him a pass on the minor league aspect of things. What hurts the Reds is that they don't have much top end talent. And as he mentions Alonso is a 1b only blocked by the teams best player. In order to get a true judge of talent you almost need to focus on minor league baseball only.
Presumable Cameron is assuming Jocketty will operate under a different payroll situation than he had in St Louis.
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