Paul Wilson GB pitcher takes the mound tonight for the Reds. Nestled behind him is Rich Aurlia, a man that Miley must feel is more sure handed than Lopez. Of course Rich will have to bat against Oswalt too, alas he’s only seen him for one at bat in his career. That speaks loud about how unbalanced the schedule is if a 4 year starter has never seen a a guy with 4000 MLB at bats more than once.
The thing that strikes me the hardest about the Reds current infatuation with Rich (other than a blatent disregard of a 3 year decline of epic proportions) is how similar it is to the Terry Pendleton signing by Bowden in 1997. The 1996 season was a bad year for Reds 3b, a lot like last year the team spread the position around to 4 players with 2 others seeing time.
CINCINNATI REDS SEASON 1996 3B GAMES G 1 Willie Greene 74 2 Jeff Branson 64 3 Chris Sabo 43 4 Lenny Harris 24 5 Eric Owens 5 6 Eduardo Perez 3
That winter Bowden picked up Terry Pendleton, mainly beacause he and Ray Knight weren’t sure about Willie Green at 3rd.
Sound familar eh? Kinda like that friend of yours who dates the same type over and over and over again.
Poor Terry didn’t pan out to well and mades his last start for the Reds on July, 2nd and his last appearance as a Red on July 6th, he was released on July 24th.
I for one didn’t miss him.
TERRY PENDLETON
CINCINNATI REDS
YEAR TEAM AGE G AB R H 2B 3B HR HR% RBI BB SO SB CS AVG SLG OBA OPS
1997 Reds 36 50 113 11 28 9 0 1 0.88 17 12 14 2 1 .248 .354 .320 .674
TOTALS 50 113 11 28 9 0 1 0.88 17 12 14 2 1 .248 .354 .320 .674
LG AVERAGE 112 16 30 6 1 3 2.95 15 12 21 3 1 .271 .425 .342 .767
POS AVERAGE 112 16 31 6 1 4 3.29 17 13 21 1 1 .275 .440 .351 .791
YEAR TEAM RC RCAA RCAP OWP RC/G TB EBH ISO SEC BPA IBB HBP SAC SF GIDP OUTS PA POS
1997 Reds 13 -4 -5 .372 4.03 40 10 .106 .221 .416 1 0 0 0 1 87 125 3B
TOTALS 13 -4 -5 .372 4.03 40 10 .106 .221 .416 1 0 0 0 1 87 125
LG AVERAGE 17 0 0 .500 5.12 47 10 .154 .271 .472 1 1 1 1 2 87 126
POS AVERAGE 17 1 0 .520 5.41 50 10 .165 .283 .479 1 1 1 1 3 87 128