I. Introduction Bryan Price is a lame duck manager–not in the sense that he already knows he’s out the door , more along the lines of an actual lame duck could do his job and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. That’s not to say that Bryan Price has been a bad manager, but that the …
Last week, Steve Mancuso wrote an excellent piece about the Reds possibly pitching both Raisel Iglesias and Michael Lorenzen for 100+ innings as relievers. Bryan Price has used both semi-frequently for multiple innings at a time this year with great success. No one is surprised by this; Iglesias and Lorenzen possess great stuff, and in short spurts, …
Yes, we have known for a long time that Cincinnati’s pitching has been brutal this year. Yes, this staff broke the record for most home runs allowed in a single season. Yes, they’ve been almost impossible to watch at times. But do we really need to keep being reminded? Last week, FiveThirtyEight declared that the …
Good piece from C. Trent Rosecrans in the Enquirer about Jose Peraza: In 218 plate appearances entering Saturday’s 6-1 win against Milwaukee, Peraza is hitting .327/.349/.423. He’s been a better offensive player than many of his critics gave him credit for being at the time of the three-team trade that brought him to Cincinnati from …
Mark Sheldon talked with Brandon Phillips about next season: Last winter, Phillips used his no-trade rights to block being dealt to the Nationals. Was he expecting the Reds to revisit moving him and does he want to be dealt? “I haven’t really thought about it,” Phillips said. “That one thing that’s not really on my …
Baseball has been a game of numbers and keeping stats from the start. The New York Morning News printed the first baseball box score in 1845. Other newspapers followed suit with printed tables of statistics after each game. One of the earliest baseball outcomes measured was the defensive error. Philadelphia shortstop Billy Shindle made 122 …
Chris Garber — my co-author on the best book ever (soon-to-be) published — joined me for the latest episode of the Redleg Nation Radio podcast. We talked about the book, of course, but used “The Big 50” as a jumping-off point to discuss the current Reds team in the context of this club’s history. Enjoy! …
A little over a month ago Dilson Herrera was traded from the Mets in exchange for Red’s right fielder Jay Bruce. Herrera is a 22 year old right handed second baseman of Columbian decent. He was signed by the Pirates in 2010, spent a few seasons in their farm system, and was eventually traded to …
I’ve been keeping a secret from you. A few months back, Chris Garber — one of our original writers here at Redleg Nation — and I began writing a book about the Cincinnati Reds. (Well, we actually started writing it almost a decade ago, but that’s another story for another time.) That book will be …
The Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals have played 18 baseball games this year. Even though the Reds are 24 games below .500, they have played the Cardinals tough, splitting the season series down the middle. This week, with crushing pressure bearing down on the Cardinals, the Reds have won two of three. The two … Continue reading
Third of four games games between the Reds (66-91) and the Cardinals (82-75.) Today it is raining in Cincinnati and my abs hurt, although these things might not necessarily be related. But you can read my game thread anyway. STARTING LINEUP CARDINALS REDS 1. Matt Carpenter (1B) 2. Randal Grichuk (CF) 3. Yadier Molina (C) 4. Stephen Piscotty … Continue reading
The Reds pitching staff has been largely terrible in 2016. A whopping 31 pitchers (and Tyler Holt) took the mound for the club, allowing an MLB record 251 home runs (as of Tuesday night) and posting a collective 0.0 fWAR as a group, the third-worst mark in baseball history. While the overall numbers make it look … Continue reading
Robert Stephenson got off to a great start by retiring eight of the first nine batters he faced. His night turned around quickly however in the fourth inning. Stephenson gave up a couple of cheap singles and loaded the bases. That brought up Aledmys Diaz. Diaz was playing in his first game since his close … Continue reading
Second of four games between the Reds (66-90) and the Cardinals (81-75.) See, the Cardinals have 75 losses, not 74. 75. Because the Reds beat the Cardinals last night. They beat them. They beat them and they sent that failboat right back down the Mississip. THIS GUY DOESN’T THINK THE METS GOT THE JAY BRUCE THEY TRADED FOR … Continue reading
While ground balls aren’t the most important thing that a pitcher tends to have control over (that would be his walks and his strikeouts), the rate of ground balls does come into play into the production that a pitcher can put up. They do help limit home runs and power output in general, but they … Continue reading
Final R H E Cincinnati Reds (66-90) 15 22 0 St. Louis Cardinals (81-75) 2 6 0 W: Adleman (3-4) L: Garcia (10-13) FanGraphs Win Probability | Box Score The Good –Outstanding start by Tim Adleman, who gave up two runs on four hits in seven innings. –But the story of the night was the … Continue reading
