No
Yes
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
westofyou (10-02-2020)
I'm genuinely beginning to wonder if I will see the Reds win a single postseason series in my adult life.
Last edited by Kinsm; 10-01-2020 at 08:48 PM.
REDREAD (10-01-2020)
So after handing out not one but two of the largest FA contracts in franchise history and trading away top rated prospects for others - they had a.434 W% at the three quarter mark. In a full season that means they would have likely been trading away players, not hoping and praying on having a .733 W% over the last quarter of the season.
BluegrassRedleg (10-01-2020),REDREAD (10-01-2020)
Oh I think this season was a fail, I was just understanding his point of view.
Yes, I am saying this with the benefit of hindsight, but Shogo was a disaster, he's going to be an albotross.
Miley and Castenallos were pretty high risk guys to sign too. Moustakas is getting older, never had much range to begin with.
He had decent slugging this year, but a low batting average, like most of the team.
So yea, I agree, no offensive players really met most people's expecations.
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
If the Cardinals just had this season and put this poll up, you wouldn't find 5% of their fans saying "success." (If that.) For the number to be at 36% here as I type this speaks volumes. And the Reds will always take advantage of the mindset. There's no demand by the fans for better results, and there's insufficient/inconsistent commitment by the organization.
Rounding third and heading for home...
dreghorntwo (10-02-2020),LexRedsFan (10-01-2020),MrRedSkull (10-01-2020),REDREAD (10-01-2020)
I voted yes. Mostly because it gave me something to look forward to every day, good or bad.
And this year, there just hasn’t been much of anything to look forward to...
Reds (10-01-2020)
Thom is gone. That, in itself, makes this season a success.
Banshee (10-02-2020),BluegrassRedleg (10-01-2020),mgbrown66 (10-01-2020),REDREAD (10-02-2020),Reds (10-01-2020)
BluegrassRedleg (10-01-2020),REDREAD (10-02-2020)
I vote yes. The team strived for the World Series. Didn't make it, but neither will 30 other teams.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Ron Madden (10-01-2020)
A big issue going forward when pur goals should be more than just playoffs is honestly we have some players who are probably aging past their prime and we're going to be banking on multiple bounce back seasons next year. Without having their ages in front of me this doesn't strike me as a young team minus one of two positions.
Bunting Bad (10-01-2020),Kinsm (10-01-2020),REDREAD (10-02-2020)
1. 4 teams in our division made playoffs...so we played a decent division and still made it in.
2. .500 season after years of not coming close
3. Team was clutch down the stretch to get in
- Won 4 series in a row and 3 of those series were playoff teams...so not just beating on bums to get in.
I think we all now it stinks to end another wimper of a postseason and the thought of losing Bauer and the hole he brings is daunting for next year. But to be fair, we bring back Castillo, Gray, Mahle settled in nicely as rotation piece. I imagine Tyler Stephenson appears to be a big upgrade over Tucker, Winker settled in nicely I thought and maybe we can spend to upgrade the bullpen to improve the roster appreciably. I still am strong of opinion we should not bring Bell back and we need a guy who can help us have an organization semblance of an offensive approach to the game that we sorely lack. We look like a beer league softball team with everybody swinging out of their shoes for homers. That is my main hope on offseason.
REDREAD (10-02-2020)
REDREAD (10-02-2020)
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Going into this season, I was excited about the lineup, I thought the starting pitching would be solid and the bullpen had some holes. I was hoping that Senzel would turn into a solid starting CF and and stay healthy all season. I thought Bob Steve had a chance to prove he could be a solid bullpen contributor.
I was looking forward to watching the progress of Greene, Lodolo, Garcia, and Stephenson. Many of these questions will have to be answered next year, but the inability of situational hitting, the lack of defense, and athletism really made the games hard to watch.
REDREAD (10-02-2020)
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