Again, I don't buy stats over my own eyes. This guy was brought in to replace Greg Vaughn and did nothing for the first couple months of the season until all was lost. In the mean time Alex Ochoa was sitting on the bench with a .964 OPS. Bichette was one of those famous moves to pull the wool over Reds fans eyes. "Don't worry about us being cheap and not resigning our star player from last year, we're giving you Dante Bichette instead who put up almost as good of stats playing in Coors Field."
He didn't even last the season as the Reds traded him because they were out of the race, due to Bichette's inability to produce the first couple months of the season. I hated having him in the lineup.
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One of the funniest things I ever saw in person at a Reds game was being in the gift shop once when a young lady asked the clerk where the Wily Taveras t-shirts were. He literally doubled over with laughter. If you've ever seen "High Fidelity," it was like the dad who came into Championship Vinyl to get his daughter "I Just Called To Say I Love You," and Jack Black's character refused to sell it to him.
Rounding third and heading for home...
Greg Vaughn was going into his age 34 season. He made $5 million with the Reds in '99.
Tampa Bay gave him 3 years $24 million and he OPS'd .769 over the life of that contract in the American League during the steroid era.
Plenty went wrong with the 2000 Reds going forward. Having Bichette and not Vaughn wasn't one of those.
Also I'm impressed that you remember how a guy produced specifically over the first few months of a season 20 years ago.
There are far worse choices than Dante Bichette. Honestly, Scott Schebler is one and nobody has mentioned him yet.
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(Referring to Jack Hannahan signing with a Korean team)
Since there are no teams on the moon, I guess South Korea's far enough from Cincinnati to satisfy me.
-RichRed
KronoRed (07-11-2019)
According to Bball reference, Janish had more games and ABs than Alex Gonzalez in 2009. They OPS'd .601 and .554, respectively.
An all time putrid duo.
(Referring to Jack Hannahan signing with a Korean team)
Since there are no teams on the moon, I guess South Korea's far enough from Cincinnati to satisfy me.
-RichRed
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Adjusting for the era, Dante Bichette as a red and Scott Schebler are pretty much the same player. According to wRC+ and fWAR they are very similar.
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It is pretty remarkable how terrible we have been in CF since the Eric Davis and beginning of the Griffey era.
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Interesting how easy to recall my favorite players from past years...but how difficult to recall your worst players names over the years. I really cant recall anyone, maybe because they were so forgettable??!
Milton sticks out like a sore thumb though. Probably too...the really bad players didnt stick around very long and were demoted promptly.
yes victor santos marcus mcbeth and the great rheal cormier were standouts
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I’ve not seen Josias Manzanillo on a list. How?
He was bad while here. We're not rating these guys as assets or what they did elsewhere. He played for CIN for parts of 2 years and was pretty bad. Never hit a HR.
He ended up being pretty good for SEA, but if you think that matters you're missing the point of this exercise.
In the time I've been watching the Reds I can't think of too many horrible catchers, so he was the one I used.
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think harder there were zillions of horrible catchers
vic correll, frank house, sonny ruberto, fred kendall,
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