Loading ...John Erardi does it again:
Granted, Dunn is not an easy case-study. His combination of offensive skills and shortcomings is unique in baseball history.
He became the poster boy for a bad Reds team; he should have been the poster boy for the importance of statistical analysis in determining the true source of an offense’s inability to score runs.
It’s not unusual that Dunn would get the blame for almost everything wrong with the Reds the last few years. What we can’t understand is his being blamed for not driving in runners who weren’t on base in front of him.
(Tip of the cap to Crosley Field Terrace.)
Which is why I always thought that with his OBP he should have been batting 3rd in the lineup, or atleast 4th. How many times was he on base and didn’t get driven in by the 6 7 and 8 hitters. Probably a good amount of times with that .380 OBP
If you really want to get depressed, read the comments under that Erardi article. Reds fans are getting the team they deserve, I’m afraid.
What does Dunn hit with RISP? Mostly doubles and homers. Over half of his hits with RISP are for extra bases. Out of his 210 hits with RISP he drove in 379 ribbies.
alright, alright….Dunn ROCKED… but he’s gone…what do we do now?
How many times can the same issue be rehashed.
HE IS GOING TO COST TOO MUCH!!!!!!!
So, let’s be happy to be a farm team for the other ML teams…
I don’t recall the Reds ever blaming Dunn for their losing record. Or, anything else for that matter.
Fans did, but that’s of no consequence. They’re wrong to think he was traded because someone decided he was the reason for the teams abysmal performance. They traded him because they didn’t want to pay him. We will see it happen with almost every successful young Reds player somehere around their fourth or fifth seasons. End of story.
Bill, Cincinnati is a small and shrinking city. So is most every city in their fan base. (Dayton is literally one-half the size it was when I grew up there.)
It’s stunning that the Reds continue to stay alive in Cincinnati at all. No one would take the city seriously as a location for a new team here.
I understand that Dunn would be expensive, but if the Reds ownership group can justify spending 4 years / $46 M on a closer to throw 75 innings per year, why can’t we keep our best hitter? That CoCo deal is/was/will be terrible.
Good point, Nick, and it supports an argument I made in a different thread…
CoCo would be a good acquisition for a team that is just ONE PLAYER AWAY — a very good team that just needed a closer.
The Reds just aren’t that. And I’m afraid that Castellini is delusional and that there may be more of this type of move ahead of us.
Agree 100%, Dan.