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The Wee Willy Taveras era in Cincinnati is, mercifully, over. One of our loyal readers, however, pointed me to this post at FanGraphs that kinda sums up what we went through last year: Willy Taveras is jobless. Not for too long, since the A’s will either lose him on waivers — not sure lose is the [...] No, not exactly Willie, Mickey, and the Duke, is it? John Fay brings up one of our favorite topics in response to a reader email: Question from Steve: My question is about the Reds’ current view of Willy Taveras. Do you think they will let him come to spring training and try to win the job from [...] A loyal citizen of Redleg Nation send this our way: UPDATE: As noted in the comments, Chris Sabo’s Goggles had substantially the same idea, long ago. (EDITOR: Yes, I know we have two posts about this. I wrote this post last night and set it to publish today, as I noted in the game thread. If Bill would just check to see what is in the posting queue before he writes something, we’d have no problem. ) (Lowly peion: Sorry master, [...] Time for a recap of tonight’s titanic struggle…. FINAL POSITIVES So says the headline on this article by Teh Fay. Well, good for him. “People can do and say what they want,” Baker said. “I know what the deal is. People are looking to blame somebody. That’s just human nature. Hey, I’m in charge on the field. Whatever happens is ultimately my responsibility. I have no [...] Time for a recap of tonight’s titanic struggle…. FINAL POSITIVES (Ed: Please welcome Redleg Nation’s newest contributor.) Before Wednesday night’s game, the Reds had scored 419 runs in 106 games, or 3.953 runs per game (R/G), which ranks them 15th of the 16 NL teams. Only the San Diego Padres have done worse at scoring runs. Obviously, the Reds play in a hitters park and the [...] From the free side of Baseball Prospectus…they’re confused about Drew Stubbs and concerned about Edinson Volquez: First….about Drew Stubbs: Just confusing Drew Stubbs, OF, Reds (Triple-A Louisville) This goes hand in hand with Chris’s excellent post last night (definitely go read that one before it gets bumped too far down the page). America’s Best Sportswriter (TM) has weighed in on the ongoing debacle we are witnessing at the hands of our intrepid manager. An excerpt: Still, it’s this latest bit of Dusty magic [...] Earlier tonight, we were wondering if Dusty Baker has always batted a lousy (but fast!) CF in the leadoff spot, or if that was some special torture he dreamed up for Reds fans. I ran through the history of Dusty Leadoff Men, and found that – yeah, he almost always bats his CF first. In 16 [...] Time for a recap of tonight’s titanic struggle…. FINAL NEGATIVES –TOS* One stupid hit. Against the immortal Mat Latos. –Lots of things can be repeated, with slight changes, from last night’s recap. This is one: the Reds have 13 hits in three games [...] Tonight’s lineup: Taveras CF Only Dusty Baker would bat 2 of the 5 worst “hitters” in the majors at the top of his lineup night after night. Viva Dusty!!! UPDATE: Willy Taveras’s numbers, 2008/09 combined: 216 games, .249/.299/.297. That’s a 596 OPS and an OPS+ of 55 – by far [...] Dusty being Dusty: Chris Dickerson going on the disabled list would have seemed like a perfect time to call up one of the Reds’ top outfield prospects. Manager Dusty Baker said the Reds considered bringing up Drew Stubbs or Chris Heisey from Louisville. “But they need to play,” Baker said. Heaven forbid that you would sit Willy Taveras on [...] |
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