[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!
There has to be more to this. Why wouldn't they keep him at the minimum? If he's terrible they can just release him. Make no sense to me.
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REDREAD (11-07-2021)
...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
REDREAD (11-07-2021)
mth123 (11-07-2021),Old school 1983 (11-07-2021),Revering4Blue (11-07-2021)
REDREAD (11-07-2021)
I think the one thing we all forget about the Reds is that they're paralyzingly fearful of any risk. If a move is risky, they won't take it. And that's a recipe for this mediocre garbage we're getting each season.
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Hoosier Red (11-11-2021),REDREAD (11-08-2021)
It seems the only risks this franchise will accept involve retaining their own players (Bailey, Votto, Suarez etc.). But you're right, they seem to shy away from risk-taking when it involves changing the status quo, especially when the current status quo is on the downside, which is alarming, IMO.
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As I stated in another thread, that particular offseason spending spree was an outlier and a directive from ownership (in this case, Cast, IMO) following the botched rebuild. It's not something we should expect on even a semi regular basis moving forward.
In other words, Dan 's main point about risk aversion still stands, IMO.
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Cueto is now a free agent, middle relief would look good on him
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