RiverRat13 (08-01-2018),Tony Cloninger (08-01-2018)
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
Z-Fly (08-01-2018)
Way too early to throw Garcia on the barby. The absence of a bat is disturbing, but not yet fatal.
Fredo's all the way down in the AZL. If he can't hit there at age 24, hard to see him as more than minor league filler.
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BillDoran (08-01-2018),Flair4Horsemen (08-01-2018),Griffey012 (08-02-2018)
I'm still about Garcia. He's adjusting and his bat is trending upwards. Alfie? Not so much. You can find a lot of no hit/great glove SSs littering the AAAA landscape and can have one pretty much anytime you need them for major league minimum. Alf is more spectacular? OK, but how much more is flair worth over a fundamentally sound no bat As with great range?
Outside of some in the Reds camp, experts pretty much agreed that there was little chance AR would produce consistently at the plate. It was a bad gamble and a colossal waste of what was basically three years of a very scarce resource (International Cap Money). Just me, but I think you reserve big money deals for big bats & big arms.
Last edited by corkedbat; 08-01-2018 at 07:01 PM.
I think you wrote off Alf too soon. I even heard there's a reboot in the plans....
http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/01/alf-rebo...arner-bros-tv/
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Griffey012 (08-02-2018),M2 (08-01-2018),REDREAD (08-02-2018)
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