If they stick around long enough, baseball general managers tend to get reputations. Jim "Ralph" Bowden would chase a five tool prospect for years. Wayne Krivsky never met a two-year contract extension he... Read More...
Marlon Byrd was a cheap acquisition. With the Phillies kicking in $4 million for 2015, Byrd's cost to the Reds is just a cool $4 million. Heck, the team is spending more than that to pay a 36-year-old outfielde... Read More...
Mike Leake and Aroldis Chapman were highly accomplished 22-year-olds when they arrived as rookies to the Reds' brand new Spring Training complex in Goodyear, in February 2010.
Leake, as a junior the previous... Read More...
According to Mark Sheldon, here is the list of Reds who are now eligible for free agency:
Bloomquist, Willie
Cairo, Miguel
Edmonds, Jim
Hernandez,... Read More...
Let's recap tonight's titanic struggle....
FINAL
Cincinnati 11
Houston 1
WP: Arroyo (16-10)
LP: Figueroa (5-3)
BOX SCORE
POSITIVES
--Excellent outing for Bronson Arroyo, who went six innings to get his sixtee... Read More...
Let's recap tonight's titanic struggle....
FINAL
Arizona 3
Cincinnati 1
WP: Lopez (6-14)
LP: Volquez (3-3)
S: Gutierrez (10)
BOX SCORE
POSITIVES
--Jonny Gomes had a couple of hits, including a double, and is ... Read More...
Despite recent events, the Reds are going to win the NL Central.  Rather than talk about that slow, inexorable backward stumble into October, I thought we could use the time to look at how we got here.  H... Read More...
Last night was brutal, in ways other than the final score. First of all, Laynce Nix and Jim Edmonds both pulled up lame. It appears that Nix (sprained ankle) will be available to pinch-hit tonight, and should b... Read More...
Let's recap tonight's titanic struggle....
FINAL
Cincinnati 2
San Francisco 11
WP: Cain (10-10)
LP: Volquez (3-2)
BOX SCORE
NOT-SO-RANDOM THOUGHTS
--Not much to say at this late hour. Reds got smoked from the... Read More...
Let's recap today's titanic struggle....
FINAL
Cincinnati 11
Arizona 7
WP: A. Rhodes (4-3)
LP: A. Heilman (3-4)
BOX SCORE
Some quick thoughts before I go to bed...
--That was fun.
--I said early that I thou... Read More...
Bill and I do a little arguing this week, in the latest edition of the Redleg Nation Radio podcast. From Brandon Phillips' comments to the Jim Edmonds trade, we just can't seem to get along anymore. Listen in t... Read More...