As fans we're not supposed to know anything about 20 yr old prospects. This is the job of the Reds front office. I've never seen either player play and they were so new to professional baseball there wasn't much to go on stat wise. This isn't on fans. Evaluating 20 yr olds is up to MLB front offices and there's a ton of evidence that our front office is lacking in this area. Ditto for our development of youngsters
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I remember at the time reports that said exactly that but there's not a site like FGs where I can point to in order to prove this.
REDREAD (10-01-2019)
That's fine, I'm just not buying that there was no interest in India because nobody has that information. It's merely an assumption.
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Let's be clear, we were led to believe the Marlins were not interested in India as the primary piece of a package for JT. There's a big distance between that and claiming that nobody was interested in India.
RedTeamGo! (09-26-2019)
Fair enough. My original comment was mostly rhetorical.
0-18 in the AFL, yikes!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...gi?id=82d08c91
By its design the AFL is a small sample size. We all get that but it's still disturbing and worth discussing here
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There's no way to know what everybody thought but it "appears" that other teams preferred guys like Downs and Trammell to India
What would you say.....ya do here?
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Old school 1983 (09-28-2019)
Cueto?
Grandal was almost entirely developed by the Reds. Maybe not a star per se, but who here doesn't want him next year? Bailey was not quite a star before injuries, but seemed on his way to at least being solid. Iglesias, Chapman? maybe yes, maybe a little? Aquino is a star right now. Will he be next year?
It's not a big list.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
We did all the significant development of Shed Long, who seems to have a pretty good chance.
Anybody mention Didi Gregorius?
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