Loading ...From today’s Enquirer, after saying Freel will start the next three games (two after last night):
“Corey (Patterson) hits some of those lefties pretty good,” Baker said. “But he’s just not swinging good or getting on base.”
That Dusty, he has a unique grasp of the obvious…the only question is, why did it take him so long to figure it out?
Why not keep him in…he’s not clogging up the basepaths.
Who needs Walt Jocketty. It’s time to make some moves before the summer is more of a disaster than it is already.
Send Patterson to Louisville, activate Hopper. Put Freel or Hopper in center.
The positives are obvious here.
Let’s send Griffey to Seattle today for a Class A pitcher or a dozen balls as long as they pay his salary. His value is up since the 600 HR thing is stilllllll there. The Reds will not sell that many more tickets and even if they would they would still be money ahead to unload the contract.
Jay Bruce replaces him in right field (don’t put all the stress of center on him).
Josh Fogg to Colorado (I suppose they are still interested) for a bucket of hot spit and them taking his contract.
Bring up Homer Bailey let him pitch a little long relief for a while (that approach seems to work for other teams).
Trade Dunn to someone for a couple of quality AAA pitchers. Even send him to Houston let the Reds benefit from him hitting against them 18 games a year. He hits alot of long balls but that sure hasn’t equaled wins.
Put Votto in the outfield some (can’t be worse than Dunn and he has done it before and he can still play first half the time also)along with Hairston; put Hatteberg at first some and bring up one of the righthanded bench players from Louisville.
Money ahead, the Killer B’s – Bailey and Bruce called up, a couple of AAA pitchers, a bucket of hot spit and probably more wins. Should work!
Is Hopper close to being ready?
I think Junior will hit 600 on the upcoming homestand.
I also include a prospect and pay part (most?) of junior’s salary if the Mariners are at all inclined to trade Jeff Clement. They recently demoted him and have Johjima locked up for the next 3? years. The Reds have no catching prospects ready to step in, all 3 of their current catchers are free agents, and the free agents available in the offseason aren’t an upgrade (many are downgrades) to the current trio.