4/28/18 Reds @ Twins

[NebraskaRed]

Good day for the team ERA.

Tough to sweep on the road. Win the series tomorrow.

and most of the bullpen will be available tomorrow

[Tony Cloninger]

Ok so after all the talk about how Winker’s hitting needs to be really good to ovecome an average at best defense this is what he does his last 2 ABs?

[Tom Servo]

https://streamable.com/flpnw

In case you missed this one for the Thom highlight reel

[Tony Cloninger]

https://streamable.com/flpnw

In case you missed this one for the Thom highlight reel

Sweet TV Dude. Great googly moogly. Jeez.

[Umkubas]

Dylan Thomas?

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Fire green as grass

[mth123]

I feel like I should qualify my earlier statement by saying that I do like all of the young Reds starters, worried as I may be about what's going on with my main man Castillo.

But what do The Reds expect when you out four of them in the rotation at the same time? Young pitchers struggle. They regularly have games where they can't go deep. Not only does this out extra pressure on the starters themselves, but this also puts a ton of pressure on an over taxed bullpen and also Bailey who probably feels like he needs to go 8 innings every time out. It's just a recipe for disaster.

I'm still high in all of them but it wouldn't have killed The Reds to hedge their bets and bring some veteran stability in to take the pressure off the guys who they are pinning the hopes of this entire rebuild on.

This is grievance #8689 that I have against this front office and ownership group.


/end rant

I know these game threads are yesterday's news, but I just wanted to agree with this as much as possible. It's been my primary grievance for 3 off-seasons in a row now and why I don't buy all the bad luck nonsense that I keep reading on here. This mismanagement has me so biased against the Reds front office, that I'm suspicious of every other move they make. I still think this team is being assembled and managed like it's a fantasy baseball team and not a real team that has to manage a roster with pieces that fit together over a long 162 game season.

[mth123]

It rules that we're gonna argue forever about Winker's defense while Scooter botches three out of every four plays involving him lol

I just don't understand why it's even an argument. They both suck on defense. The fact that Scooter sucks doesn't make Winker suck any less. People defend him because they like his bat abd approach. No one is arguing that and while get evaluating a guy based on his overall game, Winker's defense is a huge problem no matter how much he hits. Same with Scooter. The Reds need to get away from a roster filled with half players.

[mth123]

It's mostly because a few people here have taken up Winker's defense as their pet issue for whatever reason, I think.

People talk about it with Winker because the Reds aggravate the problem by playing him in RF (many times with Schebler in CF). When I talk about it it's not Winker I'm criticizing, it's the obviously stupid outfield rotation that sets them up for such nonsense. It all comes back to the GM playing fantasy baseball and not considering that this is a real game happening on the field.

In Gennett's case, there is nothing else to be done about it until Senzel is ready. Hopefully Gennett will be an ex-Red by the end of the year, but finding a taker may not be so easy.

[mth123]

Austin Brice and Dylan Floro are the big stars of this game. Gotta give the brain trust it's due. Floro looks like a guy who could help. Keeps the ball down, throws strikes and was hitting 94 on the gun so he's not the soft tosser I thought he was. It would be a crime if he's the odd man out when they drop back to 12 pitchers or when Lorenzen returns. Of course, the clock could strike midnight, but right now, he wouldn't be the bubble guy in the pen for me.