Five reasons to be optimistic about the 2019 Cincinnati Reds
Chad Dotson discusses five reasons you should forget your nagging doubts and be fully optimistic about the 2019 Cincinnati Reds.
What’s the most memorable Reds game you’ve attended?
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...
On #FreeLorenzen and Norm Charlton
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...
A Reds Holiday Party Carol
There are only two things guaranteed to make me cry:
1) Listening to the Hamilton soundtrack all the way through; and
2) watching clips of servicemen and women surprising their loved ones for the holiday... Read More...
A 120-inning reliever?
A starting pitcher has a larger impact on a baseball team than does a reliever. That claim is as much a matter of opinion as the operation of addition. Full-time starters throw 180-220 innings in a single seaso... Read More...
A Requiem for Jay Bruce
Let's start with his failures. Jay Bruce’s career with the Reds has been full of them.
For example, Bruce has never choked a woman.
He’s failed to be arrested for non-payment of child support, a... Read More...
Stan Williams reflects on the Nasty Boys, Sweet Lou and the Reds
He was the pitching coach for the Nasty Boys. For Mario Soto and Jose Rijo. For Tom Browning and Danny Jackson. And he even coached The All-American Boy.
Stan Williams has fond memories of Cincinnati as both a... Read More...
Will Aroldis Chapman Become the Reds’ All-Time Leader in Saves?
The Reds are not having a good season. The team has a lot of holes, many of them caused by injury. But the Reds do have some elite players. Joey Votto is a superstar. Todd Frazier is having an MVP type of seaso... Read More...
Running Down the Velocity Upswing
As part of our discussion of the new low-scoring run environment across baseball, let’s take a look at rising fastball velocity and see what effect that may have.
Aroldis Chapman has been thrilling Re... Read More...
Longing for Nastiness
Let’s start with the Nasty Boys. While famous for their amazing name, Randy Myers, Rob Dibble and Norm Charlton are generally regarded as the core of a great bullpen. As such, one might expect them to se... Read More...
Aroldis Chapman’s historic season
Aroldis Chapman recorded the 100th save of his major league career last night - a milestone that divides Reds fans into Team Celebrate and Team Lament. Putting aside the controversies about how the organization... Read More...
Billy McCool, Cordero and Chapman: A History of Reds Closers
The “save†didn’t become an official statistic in baseball until 1969, although it had been tracked for years. The definition of a save itself was defined in 1960 by Chicago sportswriter Jero... Read More...