2025 Cincinnati Reds Thread

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Are we ever going to have luck with players and health? Austin Hays, just tearing the ball up his first several weeks with the Reds. First with a "calf" in the spring, doesn't start the season. Now it's a hamstring. He's an outfielder, he needs to run. Steer is back at first base and seems pretty healthy. Will we need to move him to left field and make Hays a DH/ 1B? CES is due back soon so 1b may be getting crowded.

So lost in Monday's win was the fact we only scored 3 runs. The Cardinals are not throwing great pitching at us. This team's offense is still the major issue with this team. Singer, great day. 1 run in 6 innings. Rodgers and Barlow hold. But if you score 0 runs, you proabably won't win.
 
14Red said:
Are we ever going to have luck with players and health? Austin Hays, just tearing the ball up his first several weeks with the Reds. First with a "calf" in the spring, doesn't start the season. Now it's a hamstring. He's an outfielder, he needs to run. Steer is back at first base and seems pretty healthy. Will we need to move him to left field and make Hays a DH/ 1B? CES is due back soon so 1b may be getting crowded.

So lost in Monday's win was the fact we only scored 3 runs. The Cardinals are not throwing great pitching at us. This team's offense is still the major issue with this team. Singer, great day. 1 run in 6 innings. Rodgers and Barlow hold. But if you score 0 runs, you proabably won't win.
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No, bc the training staff is incompetent.
 
Another forgettable day in the annals of the craptacular Castellini Era of Reds baseball.

Reds muster a meager one run on 10 hits combined in the doubleheader, silenced by bad-to-mediocre starters Mikolas and Matz along with a 27th man who got shelled by Boston in his only previous MLB appearance of the season.

Alexis Diaz and Chase Petty both got hammered. A reminder that both of them would have been well-regarded trade commodities within the past 2 years. Now Diaz is a AAA candidate with little trade value, and Petty is still a ways away from being MLB-caliber, it appears. The front office’s fear of making bold moves has opportunity costs.
 
5 straight whiny, angry, irrational posts, and Omar has the gall to call someone else parts of the female anatomy. I'm guessing that dude lives alone. Totally unbearable.

As for Petty, only a moron (see above) would give up on Petty at age 22. Certainly he has some talent and potential, but clearly he has things to work on.

As for Diaz, wow. He just seems to have totally lost his confidence as well as his mechanics. Not sure if he can recover in less than a season. He probably needs a fresh start someplace.

But for once I agree with @14Red - the offense is the larger concern. Cardinals pitching is very mediocre, and we have scored 3 - 0 - 1. Martinez and Singer were great. one bad outing by Petty is not a big deal. Offense was rolling along pretty well, but that was in Denver. Too many guys not hitting right now.
 
AEW Champion said:
Another forgettable day in the annals of the craptacular Castellini Era of Reds baseball.

Reds muster a meager one run on 10 hits combined in the doubleheader, silenced by bad-to-mediocre starters Mikolas and Matz along with a 27th man who got shelled by Boston in his only previous MLB appearance of the season.

Alexis Diaz and Chase Petty both got hammered. A reminder that both of them would have been well-regarded trade commodities within the past 2 years. Now Diaz is a AAA candidate with little trade value, and Petty is still a ways away from being MLB-caliber, it appears. The front office’s fear of making bold moves has opportunity costs.
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I won’t forget Petty crying like a p**sy and sh***ing himself. Cut him.
 
wolves82 said:
5 straight whiny, angry, irrational posts, and Omar has the gall to call someone else parts of the female anatomy. I'm guessing that dude lives alone. Totally unbearable.

As for Petty, only a moron (see above) would give up on Petty at age 22. Certainly he has some talent and potential, but clearly he has things to work on.

As for Diaz, wow. He just seems to have totally lost his confidence as well as his mechanics. Not sure if he can recover in less than a season. He probably needs a fresh start someplace.

But for once I agree with @14Red - the offense is the larger concern. Cardinals pitching is very mediocre, and we have scored 3 - 0 - 1. Martinez and Singer were great. one bad outing by Petty is not a big deal. Offense was rolling along pretty well, but that was in Denver. Too many guys not hitting right now.
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What talent? Crying?
 
I still don't understand the strategy of bringing Petty up for game 2 yesterday. Abbot was supposed to pitch Wednesday and Hunter today. You bring up Petty, he gets rocked and you push everyone else back a day? No sense at all. Just have Singer pitch on 3 days rest on his next start. Play your best hand as often as you can.
 
14Red said:
Singer is 28 years old, this isn't his first rodeo. I don't see any harm in doing it occasionally.
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The organization already has Lowder, Spiers, Williamson and Aguiar injured, and has moved Ashcraft and I suppose Richardson into bullpen roles. Wade Miley is also still rehabbing.

In case you’ve not noticed, healthy starting pitching in this organization is thin right now. You don’t play with fire with one of your few remaining healthy guys when it’s totally unnecessary.
 
wolves82 said:
5 straight whiny, angry, irrational posts, and Omar has the gall to call someone else parts of the female anatomy. I'm guessing that dude lives alone. Totally unbearable.

As for Petty, only a moron (see above) would give up on Petty at age 22. Certainly he has some talent and potential, but clearly he has things to work on.

As for Diaz, wow. He just seems to have totally lost his confidence as well as his mechanics. Not sure if he can recover in less than a season. He probably needs a fresh start someplace.

But for once I agree with @14Red - the offense is the larger concern. Cardinals pitching is very mediocre, and we have scored 3 - 0 - 1. Martinez and Singer were great. one bad outing by Petty is not a big deal. Offense was rolling along pretty well, but that was in Denver. Too many guys not hitting right now.
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i guess typing words with stars in them is acceptable now? he will also use the word regard for some reason. i guess he's never dealt with a person with disabilities. his bubble must be the perfect world.

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jtk said:
i guess typing words with stars in them is acceptable now? he will also use the word regard for some reason. i guess he's never dealt with a person with disabilities. his bubble must be the perfect world.

jtk
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Trust me, his world is far from perfect. That is why he is so angry all the time.
 
AEW Champion said:
The organization already has Lowder, Spiers, Williamson and Aguiar injured, and has moved Ashcraft and I suppose Richardson into bullpen roles. Wade Miley is also still rehabbing.

In case you’ve not noticed, healthy starting pitching in this organization is thin right now. You don’t play with fire with one of your few remaining healthy guys when it’s totally unnecessary.
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Ashcraft is in the bullpen because he's not a starter. His role is better served as a 1-2 inning guy. This is the way it works. All guys come through baseball as starters until they either can't handle the workload, or they don't develop enough pitches to get guys out multiple times in games.
 
14Red said:
I still don't understand the strategy of bringing Petty up for game 2 yesterday. Abbot was supposed to pitch Wednesday and Hunter today. You bring up Petty, he gets rocked and you push everyone else back a day? No sense at all. Just have Singer pitch on 3 days rest on his next start. Play your best hand as often as you can.
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Is this why you keep wanting Candelario in the lineup?

As far as I’m tracking, you’ve been his only apologist on here.
 
Salvaged a 2-2 split with the hated Cards, we can live with that. It is weird with this team how on any given day either nobody hits or everybody hits. Score 14, then get shutout 3 straight days. Score like crazy for a 5 game win streak, then score 4 runs in 3 games, then 9 yesterday.

Let's get 2 of 3 from the Nats and just strive for consistency on offense.

PS. Ashcraft looked amazing yesterday.
 
Good a place as any to share - my son is playing baseball and last weekend was our community's opening day parade, with Phil Castellini as the guest of honor. Parade ends in one of the parks where there's food trucks, a band, team introductions, first pitch, etc. They give the mic to Phil and he couldn't be any more of an uninspiring dork. Instead of what could have been a template address, ("Great to see so many kids coming out for baseball in [insert community name]..."), the guy held the mic at the bottom of his chest so you could hardly hear him, spent five minutes slob knobbing the Reds, barely said a word about youth baseball or our town, ended with "God bless America, and go Reds!" Exited to golf claps at best.
 
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