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by Chad Dotson on March 27th, 2011 in 2011 Reds
Paul Janish (The Enquirer/Joseph Fuqua II)
Orlando Cabrera (2010) Alex Gonzalez (2009, 2007) Jeff Keppinger (2008) Felipe Lopez (2006) Rich Aurilia (2005)
Between 1974 and 2004, the Cincinnati Reds were fortunate to be able to pencil in the names of Dave Concepcion or Barry Larkin at the shortstop position nearly every Opening Day. Now [...]
by Chad Dotson on August 7th, 2010 in 2010 Reds, Minors The only thing we know for sure is that Drew Sutton was claimed off waivers by Cleveland, and he’s now an Indian. I always thought Sutton could help this team, and I wish him the best in Cleveland. Since we gave him away for free, it means that we got essentially no return for [...]
by Steve Price on March 8th, 2010 in 1990 Reds, 2010 Reds, 2011 Reds, Barry Larkin: Hall of Famer, Baseball - General, Bring Barry Back!, Dusty's Lineup Shenanigans, Reds - General, Reds History, Reds Trivia The Reds signed Orlando Cabrera to a free agent contract in the off season in an effort to strengthen one of the Reds’ biggest offseason question marks; that is, who plays shortstop or maybe the question was actually whether Paul Janish would hit enough to be the regular shortstop?
Janish was the default regular after oft-hurt Alex Gonzalez was dealt to the Red Sox in a post-trade deadline deal for minor leaguer Kris Negron last August. The Reds have been searching for a shortstop since the retirement of Barry Larkin following the 2004 season. Felipe Lopez gave us one good offensive season in 2005, but we’ve since gone through Gonzalez, Royce Clayton, Jeff Keppinger, Ray Olmedo, Juan Castro, Danny Richar, Enrique Cruz, William Bergolla, Rich Aurilia, Pedro Lopez, Jerry Hairston Jr. , Adam Rosales, Drew Sutton, and even Brandon Phillips has played there since Larkin retired. We even had current Reds’ shortstop Orlando Cabrera’s brother, Jolbert Cabrera, stand there for nine games in 2008.
I don’t know why, but I’m hearing Johnny Cash‘s “I’ve Been Everywhere” in the background; or maybe it’s REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It;” maybe it’s Billy Joel‘s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” I don’t know, but…
Am I the only one missing Barry Larkin?
Continue reading Orlando Cabrera and Championship Shortstops
Defensive stats are now on the cutting edge. I particpated in a public AOL online discussion with baseball historian and statistical guru Bill James over 15 years ago about a new defensive metric he was proposing. Apparently that system didn’t work, for I didn’t see it ever published. Mr. James didn’t really appreciate my question…I just may not have asked the right way or maybe I just missed the point. 
Anyway, I’ve read more and more about how the Red Sox are abandoning power for defense, which, frankly, is almost hard to believe considering the Red Sox long history of sluggers.
So, why would the Red Sox, and possibly all of baseball, be choosing defense over power?
Continue reading Defense: The New OBP
by Chad Dotson on July 20th, 2009 in 2009 Reds, Humor, Insane Jerseys I tried to post this from GAB during the Saturday night rainfest, but I couldn’t get the picture to upload for some reason. Anyway, here it is…a guy wearing a Mark Wohlers jersey. Awesome.
This joins the pantheon of odd jerseys I’ve seen at games recently. We’re going to start collecting these under [...]
by Steve Price on May 10th, 2009 in 2009 Reds, Reds - General, Reds Trivia Baseball Prospectus analyzed the Jeff Keppinger-Drew Sutton deal on Tuesday, and more or less said that Walt Jocketty was doing the Astros a favor for Sutton is 26 and not really a prospect. To quote:
“Between some modest amount of speed and pop added to his switch-hitting, he (Sutton) could stick as somebody’s [...]
by Chad Dotson on April 16th, 2009 in 2009 Reds, Minors News and notes from around the interwebs, as we contemplate how to endure yet another day with no Reds:
–Bill Bray is hurt again. In related news, the sun rose in the east this morning.
–Mark Sheldon notes some early trends, including this:
The Reds offense is ranked 16th out of 16 NL teams [...]
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