Sunday Game Thread!
The Reds play the LA Dodgers today at 4:05 p.m. ET at Camelback Ranch, a beautiful facility the Dodgers share with the Chicago White Sox. The game will be televised nationally on the MLB Network, you can watch ... Read More...
This time, create and implement a pitching plan
By my count from the Old Recliner, the Reds now have 38 players on the 40-man roster, so there is room to add players and make starting rotation moves necessary to begin the season. Bryan Price previous... Read More...
Projecting the Reds bullpen
The competition surrounding Reds’ rotation is generating most of the hubbub at camp, but with Homer Bailey and John Lamb unfit for the start of the season, a safe assumption can be made that in some orde... Read More...
Hey Reds, about that $30 million?
The Reds' front office isn't generating much news these days. It's tedium and Ryan Mattheus on the Ohio River. That's the sleepy nature of rebuild-reboot-recycle, at least as practiced on Joe Nuxhall Way. As... Read More...
Roster turnover
Twelve players who were on the Reds 25-man Opening Day 2015 roster are no longer with the organization:
C: Brayan Peña
IF: Kristopher Negron, Chris Dominguez
OF: Brennan Boesch, Marlon Byrd, Skip Sch... Read More...
Reds non-tender LaMarre, Villarreal, and Mattheus
The Reds announced today that they have non-tendered three players: Ryan LaMarre (OF), Pedro Villarreal (SP/RP), and Ryan Mattheus (RP). This means that those players become free agents effective immediately... Read More...
We’re all mad here
I generally like Jim Kelch and Chris Welsh in the TV booth. But during the first game tonight, there was a five-minute stretch of the broadcast with a real Alice in Wonderland quality. Kelch felt the need to cl... Read More...
In praise of Pedro Villarreal, the Reds’ unsung Garbage Man
On the surface, labeling Pedro Villarreal a “garbage man†is patently unfair. Villarreal, after all, is a professional baseball player with 65.1 innings pitched in the best baseball league in the wo... Read More...
No one told Joey and Jay we were trying to lose
Two teams that are a combined 47.5 games out of first place shouldn't be allowed to play for 4 hours. If the Geneva Convention doesn't prohibit it, it should. The game featured a pop-up bunt that fell in for a ... Read More...
Eight in a row is enough
I don't know which deity we've angered. But it's the one that in the seventh inning turned Todd Frazier's certain three-run homer into a soul-crushing out. Perhaps a sacrifice 0f social evil is in order. Those ... Read More...
B-Team Blues
Today, the Reds fielded a lineup that was absent Votto, Hamilton, and Pena, giving it a decidedly B-Team feel. They lost.
Pirates 3  Reds 0  |  Box Score  |  Win Probability Graph
Good Thin... Read More...
Reds, Cubs split double-header, series
Mike Leake dominated the Cubs, leading the Reds to an easy win in the opening game. In the night game, Taylor Teagarden, a light-hitting (.154) catcher with 13 at bats this year, managed a hit off Aroldis Ch... Read More...