#Reds
Stuff+ Notes
Trade Deadline Edition
Really excited to share this one, all data is post-All Star Break to give insight into pitchers' recent performances... although I still referenced season-long stats in the rationales.
Enjoy!
Joey Votto deserves better.
Jesse Winker deserves better.
Jonathan India deserves better.
Derek Johnson and David Bell deserve better.
Chris Welsh, John Sadak and Jim Day deserve better.
The city deserves better.
The fans deserve better.
Amir Garrett has a 0.00 ERA in 5.1 IP this year.
The
#Reds
have one healthy LHP on their entire 40-man roster.
Mike Minor is being paid ~$7.5M more than AG this season.
Get Krall’ed.
@ctrent
#Reds
president Phil Castellini issued the following statement: "I apologize to Reds fans and regret the comments that I made earlier today as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that’ll be a homerun. And so that’ll make it a 4-0 ballgame…”
The Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres both finished 82-80 in 2023.
The
#Reds
will pick
#2
overall in the 2024 MLB Draft.
The Padres will pick 25th (!!!)
If Matt McLain had posted his AAA numbers in the Yankees system, his MiLB ABs would have been nationally televised.
If he'd followed that up with the performance he's put together in the Majors so far, he would be getting MVP buzz and have a stupid nickname like "Little Jeter"
The Cincinnati Reds have not been 1 or fewer games back in the NL Central (incl. leading the division) 69 or more games into the season since…
October 3, 2012.
🚨 PLAN FOR TOMORROW! 🚨
Wake up
Piss excellence
Get a haircut
Get on my nicest Reds shirt
Go pick up some wings
Check the lineup (Confirm Martini is in)
Go to DraftKings app
Bet Nick Martini HR +700
Turn on Bally Sports Ohio
Martini HR in 1st AB
Reds win 8-2
Perish
Ready, Go!
Elly De La Cruz is out of the lineup after the Bats had an off day yesterday.
And the
@LouisvilleBats
are posting unprompted pictures of him?
Now why is that…
The
#Reds
have won 14 of their last 17 games.
They just went into a 47-29 team's house and took 2 of 3.
They're in 1st place in the NL Central.
Enjoy this.
#ATOBTTR
Losing 22 out of 23 games after the owner’s son publicly calls out fans and threatens to move the team is a script so predictable I’d expect it to be in a Netflix Original, not real life.
Since Ben Verlander claimed the Reds as his 2024 team:
- Lost Joey Votto to Toronto
- Noelvi Marte 80 game PED suspension
- TJ Friedl out 6-8 weeks
- Brandon Williamson IL
- Matt McLain out indefinitely
- Edwin Arroyo out for season
Some sort of poetic justice in there with the player the Reds moved on because of his baserunning and defense getting thrown out by the guy they traded for.
- Lucas Sims back
- Senzel is healthy to face a LHP
- Pham is still playing against an old team
- Hunter Greene is pitching
- Joey Votto painted himself green and dressed up like The Hulk
Losing streak ends tonight.
The
#Reds
Opening Day payroll last year was $82.875MM.
- $25MM of that was owed to Joey Votto.
- $22MM of it was allocated toward buying out Mike Moustakas
- $7.5MM of it was owed to Wil Myers
- $3.25MM of it was owed to Curt Casali
- $500K was owed to buying out Mike Minor
Can we all take a step back & realize that Elly De La Cruz has gone from an unheralded 16 year old prospect signed out of the Dominican Republic for $65,000 a little under 5 years ago…
To now being ESPN’s
#1
ranked prospect in all of Major League Baseball.
What a journey.
The
#Reds
have significantly raised the floor of this team and all it’s cost them is cold, hard cash.
The farm system has remained fully intact and the team is spending money, if you’re still complaining after this offseason I’m not really sure what to tell you.
Congratulations to the Harpers!
Please, by all means, take your time in returning and enjoy all of those little moments in the first few days of fatherhood.
No rush, feel free to take off Thursday too.
Prior to tonight’s game against the Cincinnati Reds, the Phillies placed first baseman Bryce Harper on the paternity list. To fill his spot on the 26-man roster, the club recalled infielder Kody Clemens from triple-A Lehigh Valley.
The
#Reds
currently have a better record than the three teams they traded Luis Castillo, Tyler Mahle, and Brandon Drury to at last year’s trade deadline.
Since coming to the
#Mariners
, Luis Castillo has faced Gerrit Cole, Gerrit Cole again, and Shohei Ohtani.
Seattle is 3-0 in these starts and Castillo has arguably outpitched his opponent each time.
Love Sadak just inventing the concept of a “team cycle” mid-inning lol.
Top of the 5th
Jeimer HR
Elly 3B
Fraley 2B
Friedl 1B
I don’t know if it was a thing before, but it’s totally a thing now.
In one offseason,
#Brewers
GM Matt Arnold has:
- Traded for Jesse Winker
- Signed Wade Miley
- Signed Josh VanMeter
- Signed Justin Wilson
- Signed Tyler Naquin
Think someone was admiring the 2020-21
#Reds
from afar?
It's absurd how quickly the Bengals have overtaken the Reds as the talk of the town.
It's Opening Day and it seems like everyone's more focused on the draft and free agency on Twitter.
The
#Reds
: “We are not and never have been considering trading Noelvi Marte and CES.”
National pundits: “OMG will the Reds trade Marte for CES for pitching?!”
The
#Bengals
: “We are not and never have been considering trade Tee Higgins.”
National pundits: “OMG…”
@mike_petriello
That’s not really an apples to apples comparison… it’d be the equivalent of them signing like Luis Cessa is he was a Free Agent at the end of the year.
Eugenio Suarez 2022 Salary: $11.285M
Mike Minor + Donovan Solano 2022 Salary: $14.5M
Why was Eugenio Suarez attached to Winker (suppressing his value at the time) when the team was clearly comfortable rolling into 2022 with his amount of salary on the books?
#Reds
return for Jesse Winker & Eugenio Suarez
- Jake Fraley (currently getting benched vRHP)
- Justin Dunn (are we sure he exists?)
- Brandon Williamson (7.6 BB/9 as a 24 y/o in AA)
- Connor Phillips (7.7 BB/9 as a 21 y/o in High-A)
I sorta feel like we’re just glossing over the fact that Elly went 3-for-4 with a game-tying 110mph RBI single in the bottom of the 9th after striking out 4 times yesterday.
The Cubs will be paying a manager more next year than the Reds will be paying Elly De La Cruz, Matt McLain, Noelvi Marte, TJ Friedl, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Nick Lodolo, Graham Ashcraft, Andrew Abbott, Brandon Williamson, and Alexis Diaz combined.
Imagine waking up, your mom dressing you like a villain in a Chris Farley movie and then thinking to yourself, “you know Opening Day is probably a good time to publicly call out our fanbase. This should go over well.”
Did Ty France and Brandon Drury really lose their All-Star spots so that Cabrera and Pujols could make the team?
Feels like the “legend” spots should only add to the ASG rosters, not take anything away.
The
#Reds
rotation's stats over the Last 30 Days
This is the glaring Achilles heel that the team needs to sell the farm to fix?
With Hunter Greene, Nick Lodolo, and Connor Phillips on the way?
The
#Reds
traded Dan Straily for 5.5 years of Luis Castillo, Noelvi freakin’ Marte, current Top-100 prospect Edwin Arroyo, a 99mph flamethrower and a consensus top SP in the
#Mariners
system.
I usually don’t @ people on here, but
@danstraily67
, you are forever a Reds legend.