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How soon following the draft can players be traded? I know it used to be a year prior to the Trea Turner situation, but I believe that's changed.
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I have noticed that the Reds seem to like Gators based on last offseason where they noted DeSclafani and Crawford were both guys they had interest in coming of out college before trading for them.
I also think the Buckley bashing is a bit out of hand at this point. I think we could use a fresh pair of eyes and the whole shebang could use a shakeup, but man, you'd think the guy never oversaw a single successful player developed the way Redszone talks.
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“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
For those of you who are bashing Buckley and what he's done, I'd enjoy something comparing what he's done, over the the first three rounds to some other scouting directors around baseball. I haven't done an in depth look or anything, but I think the rate at which he's drafted players and turned them into big leaguers is probably going to fair well with just about anyone else. What he's missing is that true superstar in his drafts. Anyone up for the task?
I will never understand this logic. Every organization needs both pitching and batting/fielding talent. The Reds currently have a lot of young pitching talent and no batting talent. The best hitting prospect the Reds have is having a season at AAA where he is displaying no power. The Reds need bats. It's so obvious.
mth123 (05-27-2016)
Yep, if Reds fans haven't noticed by now, teams aren't in a hurry to part with big time bats. It would take Reed or Rob Steve to get anything close to what we can get with the #2 pick and we aren't getting rid of either of them. This is our best chance, as a small market team, to acquire a future superstar. Which is why I prefer Lewis, Perez, or Moniak to Senzel, their higher ceilings.
I'd be cool with Puk if he's the Reds' top guy. Feels like we've bee overlooking him based on our collective thirst for a stud offensive prospect.
There's no such thing as too much pitching, and this org certainly isn't close to it.
What's hard to understand about it? If the best talent available is a pitcher why wouldn't you take it? You're getting too hung up on the idea that we NEED a bat. Yes, a bat would be nice, but teams built on pitching can go far too, and given that we're going to have a very low pick again next year and we still have some enticing trade chips (Bruce mostly, potentially Bailey, but also young pitchers out the wahoo especially if we take another one).
There are a few teams out there that need pitching and have an 'excess' of potentially good to great bats. Boston, Houston and Texas could all use pitching and have no shortage of nice potential bats. It wouldn't be stretch to make a play for Bregman, Benintendi or Brinson.
Not to mention, again, that given how volatile the draft is we could just as easily get a 'superstar' bat at 35/43. Just look at the top 20 batters in the league over the last 3 years how many were drafted in the top 5? Prospect projection and development isn't actually a science.
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"If I wanted you to understand I would have explained it better."
- Johan Cruyff, RIP
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
redsmetz (05-27-2016)
He's reaaaaaallllly not struggling. Look at the BB to K numbers and his BABIP in May. He's actually hitting over .300 for the last 5 games as well.
We went through this last year when he was hitting .229/.343/.314 in AA for the entire season going into June 1st. He'll be fine.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
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