Royals interested in Bruce?

[corkedbat]

Trade. A few years ago, everyone wanted to trade Votto. Now, it's Bruce, Homer, Phillips, and Cozart. When will be satisfied? Apparently, RedsZone is never satisfied. When players are cheap, you keep them until they are no longer cheap and then you move them. Occasionally, you give a long term deal to a player who is special and then the fanbase gripes forever when they don't hit .400 and walk a lot and hit home runs and visit the sick children in the hospital. Just seems strange when anyone is successful, the trade talk starts. When they get the long term contract, everyone is looking for that great prospect that is going to save us. WE all worry about how much money the franchise is spending. It's not my money, so I don't care. The result is what we have now. Failure. Humor me. I really just want to win and winning without the players mentioned is near to impossible.

It's a business and the Reds have no business holding onto anyone whose current contracts expire in 2017 or sooner. They have even less business extending anyone who will be on the wrong side of 30. Everyone complains because there are all these onerous contracts tying up money that could be spent elsewhere. There was near-universal pissing and moaning last season and over the offseason about about how Bruce was one of the worst regulars in baseball. Most people wanted to give him away, but there wasn't a whole lot of interest. Now, Bruce, whose only real tool any more is inconsistency, as stated out fairly strong and presented the Reds with a Golden opportunity to move him (and possibly even get something useful in return. But now every body is whining, "Oh no, don't trade poor Jay! He's the real deal now!"

This is the same kind of fan sentimentality that has pushed this ownership and FO into making more than a couple of ill-advised moves. They showed promise over the last 11 months or so in dealing Cueto, Leake, Frazier & Chapman. Hopefully the maintain their resolve and do what needs to be done with Bruce, Cozart and with a huge dose of luck, Phillips.