Loading ...Five losses in a row, and as I read this post by John Fay, I’m not sure there is much to be excited about. Enjoy:
I asked (GM Walt Jocketty) if he thought the Reds could be fixed in one offseason.
“I hope so,” he said. “I don’t think we’re that far away.”
You may disagree with that. But it tells you that the Reds are still in the quick-fix mode. Still, they won’t trade young players as part of quick fix.
“That would kind of defeat our purpose,” Jocketty said.
So it’s a quick fix/youth movement all at the same time.
Other topics:
–Jocketty said the Reds haven’t contacted the agents for any of the 12 potential free agents on the club.
–He said no decision has been made on Adam Dunn.
–Alex Gonzalez is still in the club’s plans at shortstop. Jocketty said the medical reports indicate he’ll be readty. “But you have to be ready either way,” Jocketty said.
Honestly, I’m not sure what to make of any of that. Without question, this is the least optimistic I’ve been about the Cincinnati Reds since Bob Castellini bought the team. It’s bad.
I have to say the Reds minor league system is reasonably impressive, especially given the fact it just produced Votto, Bruce, and Cueto. I don’t think Jocketty is going to fix the team. That must come from Ownership down. Any corporation that has a crappy mentality in it’s ownership will have it from there to the bottom and in between.
Quick Fix #1 – DFA Corey Patterson. It won’t have a dramatic impact but it will send a message to the fans that Walt Jocketty is in control.
Quick Fix #2 – The front office tells Dusty Baker to put the best offensive team on the field every day. That means David Ross playing over Paul Bako every day.
Quick Fix #3 – Fire Dusty Baker, bring in Pete Mackanin as an interim manager.
Quick Fix #4 – Resign Adam Dunn
I’m all about staying optimistic, which is why I’m glad some of us stick around in times like these. But I think we all should agree that staying optimistic means thinking about next year, and maybe talking about our Reds franchises in video games.
this team is just beyond hope.
jocketty isn’t the kind of guy that can rebuild a team without free agents and getting lucky by drafting an albert pujols.
and now we’ve hired bill bavasi. great. now he can help ruin a second team that griffey jr never won a world series with.
oh well, at least we’ve still got dusty. i mean, that’s got to be worth something… i assume there is a chain of incriminating photographs that goes something like this:
1) baker has pictures of jocketty and/or castellini (maybe both of them together) doing something unspeakable.
2) patterson has pictures of baker doing something weird with a wine bottle. wine dude, indeed.
3) i have a picture of the reds on their way to a 90 loss season and no real hope that things will be better next year, because there’s nothing out there on the free agent market, and this team still needs a major league center fielder and a major league third baseman. a real shortstop who plays occasionally wouldn’t hurt, either.
“Stay Optimistic?!?”…
If this team was the material I had to work with on Sunday morning my topic would have to be “Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here” or at the very least come out of the judgements in the book of Revelation. No possible way I could talk about love, peace, hope, prosperity….and their ain’t that much forgiveness in this world.
Bavasi is a clown. 100% record of failure.
I honestly can’t stand this team. I get madder and madder every day.
Pete Mackanin, Dusty Baker, Sparky Anderson, Ray Knight,Miley, Narron, McKeon whoever. It wouldn’t matter who the manager was this team will still be bad. You need talent to succeed. This team when every starter is fully healthy(including Gonzalez and Freel) this team has an iffy shot at being well. With those guys hurt you have even worse backups which is where this team is right now.
On trading Dunn (or anyone else):
You don’t trade a player just because he’s unpopular with some fans, or because he has obvious weaknesses.
You trade a player when the trade makes the club stronger. In the case of Dunn, that means bringing in something useful in the trade a-n-d replacing his offensive production. At this juncture, the Reds have no one who can match Dunn’s production. Strikeouts aside, that means a Dunn trade sets you back.
Any Dunn trade should revolve around money, i.e., how much it frees for the acquisition and signing of other players.