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Shout out to every Cincinnati sports fan under like 40 who has never truly been able to experience their team play for a title.
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Why is it so hard to find announcers for Major League Baseball games who don't seem to hate everything about the game of baseball today? I'm so confused by this. I listen to hundreds of minor league games a year. HUNDREDS. You literally never hear this kind of stuff from them.
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The Cincinnati
#Reds
have told Nick Senzel that he's being called up to the Major Leagues.
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Phil Castellini: Where ya gonna go?
Luis Castillo, Jesse Winker, and Eugenio Suarez: The Playoffs
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Hunter Greene, the Cincinnati
#Reds
top prospect who is coming off of Tommy John surgery, is hitting 102 MPH again
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Also, yes Phil Castellini, I absolutely do want to have the debate. Have your people contact me and let's debate this whole "where are you going to go, who will buy the team, where will they move it, how do we compete in this market" thing. I've got a whole lot of questions.
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The Cincinnati Reds have a guy in Triple-A right now with a 2.22 ERA on the season in 52.2 innings (between AA and AAA) who throws 95-98 MPH, touches triple digits, has 16 walks (3 intentional), and 49 strikeouts.
If they are truly trying to win, get Joel Kuhnel up. NOW.
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Elly De La Cruz is hitting .321/.387/.536 right now in the big leagues and honestly it feels like he hasn't even gotten hot at any point. My brain can't really process it.
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The Cincinnati
#Reds
are on the verge of having 1 win over their last 6 series. Not 1 series win. 1 winning game.
It's truly been something to behold.
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Mike Ford wasn't good enough to be on the Reds 10 days ago. Now he's hitting 3rd. This franchise does some of the craziest stuff.
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Salary for players not on the 40, or FA's.
Rooke-level: $1150 a month
Low-A: $1300 a month
Adanced-A: $1500 a month
Double-A: $1700 a month
Triple-A: $2150 a month.
They get no room-and-board. Per Diem is $25 a day (only for road games). They owe clubhouse dues every day, too.
@dougdirt24
I know you probably posted this but what do minor leaguers make. Salary room board per diem?
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The Reds are on the verge of having 1 win in their last 5 series. Not one series win. One win.
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Nick Senzel, Aristides Aquino, Josh VanMeter, Brian O'Grady, Sal Romano - all Louisville Bats on May 1st. All high fiving on the mound at GABP on August 10th after beating the Cubs.
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Bad stat of the day:
The Cincinnati Reds four farm teams are hitting .203, .206, .205, and .206.
That would seem to be impossible.
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The best defensive shortstop in the organization is now playing center field for the 1st time in his career while the team is chasing a playoff spot is the absolute most Cincinnati Reds thing I've ever seen.
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Tanner Roark: HOLY CRAP I'VE BEEN TRADED
Arby's: Sir, this is an Arby's.
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Just a reminder for everyone that the Cincinnati
#Reds
have Eugenio Suarez locked up for six (possibly seven) seasons for $61.5M. He'll begin his age 27 season in 2019.
Just an incredible deal for the Reds.
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Here is the moment when the cutoff man caught the ball. Stop sign was up a step or two prior to this for Elly De La Cruz. He scored anyways.
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The Dayton Dragons are 16-5 after today's win. That gives them the best record in all of minor league baseball.
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The St. Louis Cardinals have 1 losing season since the year 2000 and people keep saying the Reds need to try to be the Rays.
No. The Reds need to try to be like the Cardinals. It can't and won't happen overnight, and it'll take effort (and money), but that should be the plan.
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First pitch from Hunter Greene... a strike at 101 MPH. The second pitch? Another strike at 101 MPH.
Uh, that'll work.
#Reds
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Someone just suggested that the Cincinnati Reds might be showcasing Hunter Greene for a trade......
My brain is officially the consistency of oatmeal at this point.
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Elly De La Cruz is currently slugging .617.
Here's the list of players to slug .617 or higher in the farm system with at least 350 plate appearances in a season since 2000:
Adam Dunn.
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Listening to people talk about how owning a professional sports team is a risky endeavor blows my mind.
The Cincinnati Reds have gained over $800M in value in the last 17 years while not advancing once in the playoffs.
WHERE IS THE RISK
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I will never understand the acquisition of Mike Minor for the 2022 Cincinnati Reds.
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It's kind of amazing to me that people can look at the Reds bullpen performance, the injuries to Tejay Antone, Mike Moustakas, Joey Votto, Nick Senzel, Michael Lorenzen, and think that David Bell is doing a bad job.
Just baffling.
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It would be very funny for the Reds to fire David Bell because "we have not achieved the success we expected" and hire a guy who is managing a team right now that is 35 games out of 1st place.
Miami Marlins manager Skip Schumaker is on the Reds’ radar for potential replacement for David Bell, who’s fired Sunday night.
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There is no way that this isn't what every non-Reds employee remembers about the 2022 season. Zero chance. This is what defined the year.
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Reds fans: Please spend money and try to win baseball games.
Reds front office: OK, here we go!
Reds fans: No. Not like that.
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If the Reds aren't going to make a trade then just call up Connor Phillips. There's almost no way it's a worse option than continuing to run Luke Weaver out there.
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Mike Trout hit .684/.750/1.368 last week and DID NOT WIN AL PLAYER OF THE WEEK.
Because Evan Gattis had a bunch of teammates get on base in front of him while he hit .417/.423/1.000, so he racked up a bunch of RBI.
Baseball: Marketing the heck out of their stars.
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I wrote about David Bell's firing. I think I nailed it.
The Cincinnati
#Reds
have fired manager David Bell. He went 409-456 during his six years as the manager.
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According to the Forbes numbers, The St. Louis Cardinals have made $409,500,000 in profit (before taxes) in the last 9 years. Their owner bought the team for $150M. It's now worth $2.2B.
How do I get in on a non-profitable business like this?
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Jackson Chourio has the baseball at this point. Look at where Elly De La Cruz is at.
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Elly De La Cruz is something else, folks. Bases loaded, worked a full count, then drove the ball off the wall in center for a 3-run double.
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Jose Garcia now has three home runs on the spring as he just clobbered a 2-run homer.
Most underrated prospect in baseball.
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So Amir Garrett gets a full weeks suspension and Javier Báez gets a fine?
That is absolutely INSANE.
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Not going to lie - I never thought I would see the day where so many Cincinnati Reds fans were outright pissed that they drafted the top pitcher in the entire draft
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Have you ever seen an ejection during a wardrobe malfunction in a baseball game?
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Joey Votto home run for Louisville.
105 MPH off the bat, 365 feet.
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Please, baseball Gods, find a way to get it through to someone in the Reds organization to put Tejay Antone in the starting rotation and never look back.
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Hey
@scottsloan
the Reds aren't going to move to another city if someone else buys them. In the last 50 years of Major League Baseball only one team has moved cities - the Montreal Expos. It's a boogeyman theory.
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The Reds have never lost a game in which Alejo Lopez has played. Just saying.....
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Just to be clear right now, the Cincinnati
#Reds
have the hardest pitch in the futures game - Hunter Greene at 103.1 MPH, and the furthest hit baseball in the futures game - Taylor Trammell's home run at 438 feet.
TAKING OVER BASEBALL.
Also visit my website.
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Gonna go out on a limb with no research done at all and say that Elly De La Cruz is the first player in the Milky Way galaxy to hit a 500+ foot home run and steal home in the same game.
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Matt McLain just hit his 12th home run.
How long are we going to just keep watching him hit home runs while the big league club continues to be the worst power hitting team in baseball?
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On one hand, I can't believe the Cincinnati
#Reds
allowed Phil Castellini to speak publicly.
On the other hand, let him keep talking.
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The Cincinnati Reds entered the game tonight with a 51.9% chance of making the playoffs according to Fangraphs. While some games are still happening and it'll change this a tiny bit, their current odds are 70.3%.
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Lance, you and I literally make our entire livings talking about and writing about the accomplishments of other people.
Why work hard at life when you can piggy back off the accomplishments of others?
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I'll just go ahead and say this much in a tweet, but if the Reds trade Homer Bailey and have to include a legit top prospect in order to do so, then they shouldn't. The prospect is worth more than the money you owe to Bailey. Stop acting like you're broke. You aren't.
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Elly De La Cruz is a different dude.
I can't even describe what he just did. Gonna have to wait for the video.
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The Cincinnati Reds franchise value has gone from $270,000,000 to $1,085,000,000 since the current ownership group bought it. That's $815,000,000 in gained value.
Forbes also says their operating income in that span, before interest, taxes, amoritization, has been $195,300,000.
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The National League only has six teams with winning records. Four of those teams are in the NL Central.
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Pedro Strop can wear his hat however he wants to, and if you have a problem with that, it's a you problem that you should look into fixing.
Strikeouts and ground balls are a good combo, and Strop gets tons of both. Cut down the walks a little and this looks real nice.
The Cincinnati
#Reds
have signed right-handed reliever Pedro Strop to a 1-year deal for the 2020 season
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I still can't get over the organization's lack of commitment to arguably their top prospect who put up an OPS over .950 in Triple-A because a 32-year-old journeyman was solid.
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The Reds signed a reliever today with a career ERA of 2.85 (and 2.55 over the last four years), are paying him less than $5M total for 2 seasons, and there are people bothered by it. I'm not sure I've ever been more confused in my life.
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TJ Friedl, who should have been on the Reds roster, just hit a 3-run homer in Louisville to tie the game up.
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So there is zero chance I'd let Trevor Bauer pitch on Sunday.
Let him get his Cy Young Award. Let him be ready to go ASAP in the playoffs.
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Fuck this guy.
"I'm still gonna call them an illegal alien" -- JD Vance on Haitian migrants who are in Ohio legally
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The Cincinnati
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have traded Sonny Gray, Luis Castillo, Tyler Mahle, Jesse Winker, Eugenio Suarez, Tucker Barnhart, several others, literally gave Wade Miley away for free, and are 19 games under .500 and Jason Williams of the Enquirer wrote this tonight....
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Fangraphs currently has the Cincinnati
#Reds
playoff odds at 42.5%. That's the highest it's been all season.
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Is now a bad time to mention that the Reds have a reliever currently in Triple-A, who has been in AA/AAA all year, with an ERA of 0.96, can throw up to 98 MPH, has just 8 walks on the year, and has 46 strikeouts in 37.1 innings?
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Elly De La Cruz just got the green light on a 3-0 count and hit the baseball roughly 7000 feet over the batters eye in center.
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Hunter Greene hit 104 MPH twice today and was throwing 88-90 with his breaking ball. Both of the 104 MPH fastballs went for strikes.
#Reds
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Start him at shortstop every day until he retires. Thanks.
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Addison Russell was suspended because he physically and emotionally abused his now ex-wife. He didn't suffer through anything.
Here's the video of Thom Brennaman and Jeff Brantley talking about Addison Russell, the suspension he had to "suffer" through and "a lot of other things" around him.
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So, to recap: Tim Anderson, Yasiel Puig, and David Bell all had to miss actual games that their team planned on using them for. The two pitchers who threw baseballs at hitters, Brad Keller and Chris Archer, were basically fined and had their starts pushed back a day. Miss no time
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Fun Fact: One year ago Elly De La Cruz still hadn't played a single inning of baseball in an official game in the United States. Today he's one of the most talked about prospects in the game. Just an absolute wild rise.
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Christian Encarnacion-Strand is 3-4 with a double and a walk tonight.
Thinking he's trying to get on the bus with Votto to head back to Cincinnati.....
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Nick Senzel just ended a 13-pitch at bat with an absolutely obliterated 2-run home run for Louisville. Just crushed it.
#Reds
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@infieldflygrl
Someone learned a valuable lesson today: Don't ask questions you aren't prepared to get an answer to
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The Louisville Bats have won and are now 24-23 on the season. This is the first time the Bats have been over the .500 mark at any point in any season since July 27th of 2016. They played 782 games between then and today.
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The Cincinnati
#Reds
last won a playoff series when I was in 5th grade. My next birthday will be my 40th.
Someone just told me to have patience.
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Today the Reds called up two relievers from Triple-A.
One guy has an ERA of 7.13 and 11 walks with 15 strikeouts in 24 innings.
The other guy has an ERA of 9.27 with 34 walks and 31 strikeouts in 22.1 innings.
Those were decisions that they made.
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Since Jesse Winker's injury on August 15th Shogo Akiyama is 0-14 with 1 walk. Aristides Aquino has hit .105/.244/.211.
Winker can't possibly return fast enough to the lineup.
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Nick Senzel has put 25 balls in play since he was called up.
12 of them have been over 99 MPH off the bat.
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Elly De La Cruz has 17 extra-base hits in 21 games for Double-A Chattanooga.
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The Dayton Dragons won and moved to 15-5 on the season. That's tied for the second best winning percentage in all of minor league baseball.
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Joey Votto has played 15 seasons - not including his September call up in 2007 - and he's been below-average by OPS+ twice. Once was last year when he had one working arm.
This is a subtweet to a big doofus who works at Chatterbox Sports.
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So we've had a player refuse to be optioned to the minor leagues.
Hear me out: What if Elly De La Cruz just showed up at GABP tomorrow morning and refused to leave?
I'm just asking questions, folks.
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This season, regardless of what happens at any point in the future, will be remembered as insulting from the very get go as the organization traded off half of the team, then ownership literally insulted the fanbase twice on opening day, then had the worst season in decades.
Ten years from now, how will the Reds’ 2022 season be remembered?
It’ll be about whether or not the franchise-changing decisions they made worked. It won’t be about if they lost 99 or 100 games.
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Nick Lodolo's rehab start tonight in Arizona:
2IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 4K.
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How bad is the Reds pitching situation? They just called up a reliever with an ERA over 10 who has 16 walks and 10 strikeouts and has allowed 8 home runs in 18.2 innings for Triple-A Louisville.
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Reminder that Mark Dantonio left Cincinnati for the Michigan State job without coaching the bowl game in the 2006 season (their bowl game was played in January of 2007).
Here’s Mark Dantonio’s full comments on Justin Layne skipping the bowl game
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Joey Votto got three plate appearances for Louisville tonight. When the top of the 5th inning started he did not take the field and instead Jason Vosler headed out to play 1st base.
Take that for what you will.
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Sooooooo Hawkeye says that was a home run by Joey Votto.....
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Play Jose Barrero every. Single. Day. At shortstop.
I can't believe this is something I have to say out of confusion.
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