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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
by Chad Dotson on February 2nd, 2010 in 2010 Reds I just wanna ramble a bit about recent events. Is that alright?
The last few weeks have been more interesting, from a Reds hot stove perspective, than we’ve seen in years. Do I agree with every move Walt Jocketty has made? No. Do I think the Reds are better now than they were a few weeks ago? Yeah, probably. That’s a good thing.
Continue reading Random Musings
by Chad Dotson on January 28th, 2010 in 2010 Reds, Minors How about some links?
–John Fay talked with Todd Frazier, and then developed that into this piece about Frazier being in the shortstop mix this year. I’ve made no secret that I’m a big fan of Frazier. I think he has a chance of being a pretty good major leaguer.
I wouldn’t mind seeing [...]
by Chad Dotson on January 20th, 2010 in 2010 Reds, Minors, Reds - General A quick stroll around the interwebs….
—-Looks like the Reds are around $70 million in payroll so far. I’d be surprised if they added much more to that total before Opening Day, but then, stranger things have happened.
–The Reds sent a scout to watch Ben Sheets throw.
–Will Joe Nuxhall win the Frick [...]
by Tom Diesman on October 11th, 2009 in 2009 Reds How in the world, you may ask yourself, did Brandon Phillips get over 600 PA in the number 3 and 4 spots in the Reds lineup and still fall 2 RBI short of the 100 mark? For crying out loud, over 500 of those PA were in the number 4 spot batting, most often, behind Joey Votto, who put up an incredible .414 OBP. Well, basically, it’s because Dusty Baker is simply bad at building a batting order.
The number 1 and 2 spots in the Reds lineup each ranked 15th in the NL in OBP.
Group OBP
Reds Overall .318
NL Overall .330
Reds #1 .302
NL #1 .340
Reds #2 .302
NL #2 .337
Continue reading How Dusty Cost Phillips a 100 RBI Season
by Chad Dotson on September 5th, 2009 in 2009 Reds, Dusty Was Misconstrued Frequent commenter Steve noted the following in last night’s game thread:
Chris Welsh: “The Reds are just a better team now. Scott Rolen is better at third base. Drew Stubbs is better in center field. Paul Janish is better at shortstop.”
Welsh is absolutely correct. And it’s yet another data point in the ever-increasing [...]
by Chris Garber on August 1st, 2009 in 2009 Reds, Defending Edwin Encarnacion I drew the short straw, and get to evaluate the Reds deadline deals. After the trades, and last night’s game, I barely have the strength. I’m also leaving on vacation in a few hours, so I’m going to rely on you guys to flesh this debate out in the comments.
I’ll start with the positives: The Reds traded Jerry Hairston, Jr. to the Yankees for some guy. Actually, his name is Chase Weems. He’s a catcher. And he’s headed to Dayton.
Now, the main event: The Reds sent third baseman Edwin Encarnacion and pitchers Josh Roenicke and Zach Stewart to the Blue Jays for third baseman Scott Rolen. The Blue Jays are reportedly going to defray some salary – the best I can figure it’s the difference between what’s owed to each guy the rest of the year – Rolen’s salary is $11M and EE’s is $2M. Continue reading RN Trade Evaluation: Encarnacion, Rolen, and Hairston
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