4-6 stretch, Reds now 55 W, 55 L, trail Brewers by 5.5 games, trail Pirates by 4, trail Cards by 3.5. Reds four games over .500 at home, four games under .500 away. Reds RS/RA at +13. In Wild Card race Reds 4 games behind the two leaders, Pirates and Giants, and Reds also trail Cards and trail Braves (by 2.5). Reds with 1 game lead on Marlins, 2 on Mets in WC. Reds 17-24 in one-run games, now with most one-run losses in MLB by wide margin (Mets and Royals with 21). Phillips and Votto still out on DL, Partch down, Hannahan up. Bruce missed three on bereavement list. Reds back to 12 pitchers and 5-man bench.
Offense - Reds team OPS now .673, tied with Mets for 12th-13th in NL. Last time was .689, so OPS declined by 16 points this past stretch. Reds BA now 12th at .241, OBP now 13th-14th at .301 (tied with Cubs), SLG now .372, eleventh in league. On park adjusted basis, Reds wRC+ for non-pitchers is 92, tied with Cubs for 13th-14th in NL. Only team worse is Padres.
By positions, based on ESPN stats including starters and backups --
NL catcher OPS averages .702. Reds second with .826.
NL first base OPS averages .774. Reds tenth with .737.
NL second base OPS averages .680. Reds ninth with .668.
NL third base OPS averages .730. Reds second with .774.
NL shortstop OPS averages .695. Reds fifteenth with .560
NL left field OPS averages .716. Reds eleventh with .695.
NL center field OPS averages .723. Reds eleventh with .667.
NL right field OPS averages .744. Reds thirteenth with .636.
NL pitcher OPS averages .308. Reds seventh with .294.
NL DH (few PAs involved) OPS averages .589. Reds eleventh with .513.
NL pinch hitters (listed by BA) average .210. Reds fourth in NL with .250.
Mesoraco now at 280 PAs with .939 OPS, Frazier at .800, injured Votto at .799, next best Ludwick at .717. Of position players, last fourteen days Mes at .821, next best Pena at .667 with Ludwick .656 and Negron .650. All others below .600 during that period.
Pitching - Reds team ERA is now sixth in NL at 3.39 improved from 3.51 last time. Starters on a roll now 3.25 ERA, third in league trailing Dodgers (3.19) and Nats (3.24). Improvement from 3.37 last time. Relievers also improved, were 3.86 now 3.73, were at or near bottom now twelfth in NL with nice jump.
Reds FIP now 3.87 tenth in NL with xFIP now eighth at 3.67. Team pitching WAR is seventh in NL (Fangraphs) at 8.8. Reds starters fWAR sixth in NL at 7.0, Reds relievers fWAR sixth at 1.8.
Reds with seventh most saves in NL, 32, tied for 6th-8th in NL in blown saves with 14, Reds tied for 10th-11th in holds with 53. Reds with 71 quality starts, tied with Brewers for second most in NL, Braves with 77. Reds way ahead of Cards (57) and Pirates (55) in quality starts.
Reds now with large number of pitchers below 4.00 ERA, with Bailey a recent addition at 3.89. Of currently active pitchers, only Hoover worse than 4.00 with 5.40 ERA. Cueto and Simon both 12-6, with respective ERAs of 2.05 and 2.84. Cingrani on DL at 2-8 WL, and Hoover active at 1-8 WL, total 3-16 so rest of pitchers collectively 52-39.
Cueto second in NL in ERA among qualifiers trailing only Kershaw. Cueto second in NL in Ks, 166, one K behind leader Strasburg. For qualifiers, Cueto second in WHIP at 0.92 trailing only Kershaw. 12 wins for Cueto and Simon trail only three NL pitchers with 13. Cueto second in NL in pitching WAR (ESPN) 4.5, Kershaw leads. Chapman leads all NL pitchers in K rate with 17.58 and has pitched 47 consecutive games in relief with at least one K. Among NL relievers (Fangraphs) Chapman with highest WAR at 2.1 despite only 35 appearances due to injury.
Fielding - Reds with 52 errors, still fewest in NL, Cards next with 55. Reds now well ahead in NL in team UZR with 33.7 and UZR/150 with 8.0. Reds first in NL at SS UZR by wide margin, 13.4 over, 8.5 (Braves). Reds also first in NL at CF UZR with 16.3 leading DBacks at 12.8 and Cards 11.2. Reds lowest positions in UZR are RF, twelfth, with -5.7, and first base, twelfth, at -2.0. No UZR ratings for catchers, Fangraphs does have a Def ranking showing Reds catchers eighth in NL at 8.5 with Nats leading at 14.4 and DBacks last at 5.5.