Reds Tidbits (2009 season)

[jlb1705]

Bring on the dollar hot dogs!

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeMike80

.500 should have been the goal going into the season and now it should be the goal for the 2nd half.

But I think the smoke and mirrors this team lived on in the 1st half of the season will shatter and they don't win more than 35 games in the 2nd half.

+1

On the bright side they are only about 12 plane crashes away from being a legit pennant contender this year.

Originally Posted by jlb1705

Bring on the dollar hot dogs!

Exactly. Lets get down to what Reds baseball is really all about. Marketing gimmicks to get people to come down to GABP in lieu of a winning team.

To bad those maniacs up in Cleveland [censored]ed up .10 beer night for everyone.

[EDDIE GGGG27]

What a sick DP by Phillips. The 471 Ft Hr by Votto wasnt bad either.

[brodybuck21]

The foul ball Fielder hit in the 6th was a [censored]ing BOMB

[EDDIE GGGG27]

Thanks to Mike cameron for that slide. Arroyo is now up to 16 straight scoreless innings. Package Arroyo,Weathers, and Rhodes for a halfway decent hitter.

[AuburnBuckeye]

Originally Posted by EDDIE GGGG27

Thanks to Mike cameron for that slide. Arroyo is now up to 16 straight scoreless innings. Package Arroyo,Weathers, and Rhodes for a halfway decent hitter.

Yeah, how often do you see someone slide like 3 ft past the bag, he was obviously trying to take Phillips out. Didn't agree with Welsh on that one.

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by EDDIE GGGG27

Thanks to Mike cameron for that slide. Arroyo is now up to 16 straight scoreless innings. Package Arroyo,Weathers, and Rhodes for a halfway decent hitter.

Add Hernandez to the list and you have the minimum number of guys I move if I'm GM. There are enough near MLB ready prospects in our system that could potentially fix a lot of our offensive woes that I jus take a best player availible approach in return.

I would let it be known Harang and Cordero could be had for the right price.

Tavaras is DFA'd.

[Bucky Katt]

*insert "professional at-bat" comment*

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by Bucky Katt

*insert "professional at-bat" comment*

Professional at bats/knows how to win/veteran presence/scrappy/gamer/just a ball player

You can never have enough, just ask The Dusty.

[Bucky Katt]

WT now 17-23 in the SB department....74%. What's the break-even number, jax? ~80%?

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by Bucky Katt

WT now 17-23 in the SB department....74%. What's the break-even number, jax? ~80%?

No, anything over 70% actually aids in run production. Give the devil his due, he's an excellent basestealer. His abysmal OBP just negates that one true skill.

WT has value if used as a 4th OF/pinch runner. Thats it. They way our brainiacs value him is a sick joke.

[Jaxbuck]

That said, here is a picture of how our overall team baserunning stacks up vs the other 29 teams in MLB. Measured by EQBRR.

EQBRR: Equivalent Base Running Runs. Measures the number of runs contributed by a player's advancement on the bases, above what would be expected based on the number and quality of the baserunning opportunities with which the player is presented, park-adjusted and based on a multi-year run expectancy table. EqBRR is calculated as the sum of various baserunning components: Equivalent Ground Advancement Runs (EqGAR), Equivalent Stolen Base Runs (EqSBR), Equivalent Air Advancement Runs (EqAAR), Equivalent Hit Advancement Runs (EqHAR) and Equivalent Other Advancement Runs (EqOAR).

Reds rank #25 with a tidy -6.6

Thats right, The Dusty's brilliance extends beyond putting the worst CF in the NL out there every night. His "aggressive" style of baserunning actually costs us runs.

Not as many as running WT out thee nightly however.

NL CFers by VORP with a minimum of 50 PA's.

WT comes in at 27th out of 27 with a whopping -9.8 VORP.

So if The Dusty would simply bench WT and keep the other slugs from running themselves into outs we'd probly win 1-2 more games in the second half if nothing else changed at all.

[CookyPuss]

Went to the game tonight because my uncle and nephew came into town. Can't believe it was a sell out (or at least close). Guess people will do anything for a [censored]ing bobble head. This team sucks my balls. How the hell do you get rolled by a guy with a 7+ ERA? After Hairston had like a 20 pitch AB in the first, I thought maybe that they had a gameplan on the guy. I should've known better. At least we didn't wait out the entire rain delay.

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by MuckFich06

Went to the game tonight because my uncle and nephew came into town. Can't believe it was a sell out (or at least close). Guess people will do anything for a [censored]ing bobble head. This team sucks my balls. How the hell do you get rolled by a guy with a 7+ ERA? After Hairston had like a 20 pitch AB in the first, I thought maybe that they had a gameplan on the guy. I should've known better. At least we didn't wait out the entire rain delay.

What's sad is that the grounds crew doing YMCA, the bobblehead, my son getting on the FSN pre-game show twice, and buying my son his first big foam finger were the highlights of my night. The baseball wasn't so great ...

Oh, and the Brewers taking BP. Cameron (I think it was Cameron) was routinely putting balls in the second deck of left field, just a few rows short of actually hitting the jumbotron.

[sepia5]

Sort of off topic, but I was killing some time at this quiz site while taking study breaks today, and took a quiz in which you had something like 10 minutes to name all the franchises in each of the 4 major US sports leagues. Afterwards, you can check your answers to see which answers were most-missed. Check out the results:

teams of the Big Four U.S. Sports Quiz Results - sporcle

You'll notice that more people answer "Cincinnati Reds" correctly than any other team. That's right. With 93.2% of respondents answering correctly, the Reds are the most well-known franchise in sports. By the way, the Indians were middle of the pack with 75.6% remembering that Cleveland has a baseball team.