757690 (12-02-2020),Redsfaithful (12-03-2020),Revering4Blue (12-02-2020),Tom Servo (12-02-2020),Wonderful Monds (12-02-2020)
I mean they got the NL Cy Young winner out of Trammell whose stock keeps falling and was traded again. I won’t argue that the LAD trade wasn’t a poor move, I’ll admit I liked it at the time but that’s looking like a misestimation on my part. Let’s also not act like every other deal has been of the same variety of wrong. Outside of that deal we have given up middling talent. And it’s still TBD if Downs and Gray ever become more than middling talent or just got the benefit of the LAD hype machine.
"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.
I can't imagine the damage MLB is going to do to itself coming back from covidworld to another baseball strike.
mth123 (12-04-2020)
thatcoolguy_22 (12-03-2020)
I suppose we'll find out which teams actually care when the FA action starts. Some will emerge with better than what they cut. Others will be squeezing a dime between their knees because they dare not part with it. The Reds had better be the former.
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*BaseClogger* (12-03-2020),757690 (12-02-2020),Edd Roush (12-03-2020),Fil3232 (12-03-2020),Revering4Blue (12-02-2020),Wonderful Monds (12-02-2020)
I wouldn’t be surprised if the plan was to fall backwards into the expanded playoffs and hope to get lucky. And I really hope they don’t permanently expand the playoffs (not only because it sucks just in its own right), but because I imagine that’ll be their strategy every year for the rest of time if that’s an option.
Coopdaddy67 (12-02-2020),mth123 (12-04-2020),REDREAD (12-06-2020)
Last edited by Griffey012; 12-02-2020 at 10:57 PM.
"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.
*BaseClogger* (12-03-2020),757690 (12-02-2020),Coopdaddy67 (12-02-2020),REDREAD (12-06-2020),Tom Servo (12-02-2020)
REDREAD (12-06-2020)
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
"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.
I’m all for roster churn. Incremental change is ok. I’ll withhold comment till I see who they sign to fill out the 40 man roster. If the 10 guys they end up with a better group or a better fit, then ok. But if it’s flotsam and jetsam (I think they played for the Mariners), then not so ok. This is a critical test for the front office.
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Edd Roush (12-03-2020),M2 (12-02-2020),Revering4Blue (12-03-2020)
No way am I losing one second of sleep over the December '18 loss of Bailey, Downs, Gray and Rainey to the Dodgers and Nats, respectively. Given the state of the organization at the time - namely, the MLB roster - the aforementioned deals represented an acknowledgement of an abject failure of an organizational plan, which was promptly tossed into the trash can. That, in of itself, was huge, and the first step toward the road to respectability for the franchise.
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REDREAD (12-06-2020),Redsfan6272 (12-03-2020),Revering4Blue (12-04-2020)
REDREAD (12-06-2020)
This is pathetic.
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