Clay Marshall, Author at Redleg Nation

Deja Vu All Over Again: What The Reds Can Learn From The 2005 Astros | Clay Marshall

05/31/2018

Just over a week ago, the Reds' record sat at 15-30. While dropping two out of every three is terrible no matter how you spin it, another team recently began their season with the same 45-game split yet managed... Read More...

A Sweeping Beauty of a Weekend | Clay Marshall

Clay Marshall

05/14/2018

I'll begin with a confession: Twice in the past 27 years, I actually considered becoming a Dodgers fan. The first time was as a 13-year-old in November of 1991, when Eric Davis was traded. As I touched on this... Read More...

About Last Night… | Clay Marshall

Clay Marshall

05/11/2018

The first inning hadn't even come to a close, and it already felt like a lost cause. Tyler Mahle was getting squeezed. Joey Votto couldn't field. The pitch count ticked toward 30. The Dodgers drew first bloo... Read More...

One Month Down…

Clay Marshall

05/03/2018

After returning from a trip to Cincinnati last month during which I saw the Reds drop three games to the Cardinals, I offered several suggestions as to how to stop the bleeding. Granted, many of my bullet point... Read More...

Reign Delay: The Rebuild Continues | Clay Marshall

Clay Marshall

04/17/2018

The rain came down in buckets as we made the drive to Cincinnati on Sunday morning, but I still held out hope that we'd be able to see the Reds play one final time before we flew home. After witnessing Thursday... Read More...

Hope Begins Anew*: Spring Training 2018

Clay Marshall

03/13/2018

Whether I was reeling from the cumulative effects of a multi-season rebuild or because I was nonplussed by an offseason in which the Reds' only notable acquisitions were thirty-something journeymen relievers, I... Read More...

The Best $10 I’ve Ever Spent

Clay Marshall

09/13/2017

For the first half of my Nashville childhood, my television-viewing options were limited to just six channels Ã¢â‚¬â€œ the local affiliates for ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS, as well as two independent stations that sh... Read More...

The Cingrani Butterfly Effect

Clay Marshall

08/29/2017

With the Reds looking up from the bottom of the NL Central standings, fans have spent much of the 2017 season speculating not about the postseason, but about which players would be dealt at the trade deadline. ... Read More...

Willing and Adle

Clay Marshall

08/04/2017

Over the past 15 months, no pitcher has started more games for the Reds than Tim Adleman. While that sentence alone tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the ongoing state of the rebuild, this... Read More...

What’s the most memorable Reds game you’ve attended?

Clay Marshall

07/11/2017

It's a fun question to ponder, but settling on an answer was harder than I expected. I've never witnessed a no-hitter or perfect game, never seen someone homer four times or collect hit #4,192, and never experi... Read More...

When “good enough” isn’t: D-Backs 6, Reds 3.

Clay Marshall

07/08/2017

Being described as adequate doesn't sound very sexy, but in yet another year where the Reds have gone through pitchers like tissue, Tim Adleman's adequacy has been a breath Ã¢â‚¬â€œ or at least a modest gasp Ã¢... Read More...

On #FreeLorenzen and Norm Charlton

Clay Marshall

07/07/2017

I was happy to see Steve recently reference Norm Charlton's contributions as a starter during Cincinnati's 1990 World Championship season. Twenty-seven years later, most Reds fans remember Charlton as a Nasty B... Read More...

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