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Cincinnati Reds 2019 season (Black Hole)

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Ahiacitian said:
Exactly. Leave it up to the Reds to go the partial rebuild route for the 28th consecutive year. The dumbasses will do something stupid like trade Senzel for Bauer so they can finish 20 games under .500 instead of 28.

Hell the Marlins have been shitty for 80% of their existence, however, they sure know how to go full rebuild and have two world championships since the Reds have last won theirs to show for it.
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Eric Milton 2.0


you know it's coming
 
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....and for the record, calling my shot now:

Go look for the available pitcher with the lowest swing and miss rate, highest flyball rate, a significantly poor HR/FB peripheral and a well known and documented injury history. Probably something degenerative/chronic.

That will be our boy.
 
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What did I tell you? Right on cue...Tanner fucking Roark

................He has only once topped a ten percent swinging-strike rate, during his otherwise poor 2017 season, and has consistently graded out as a low-4 ERA type hurler in the eyes of ERA estimators................
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If there’s an area of concern, it could be in the cozy confines of Great American Ball Park. Roark has never had particularly pressing issues with the long ball, but he has coughed up quite a few more in his lesser seasons (2015, 2017, 2018) than in his good ones. And after turning in approximately 48% groundball rates over the prior three years, Roark dropped to 40.7% in 2018 even as his flyball rate rose to 37.6% after sitting at or below 32% in that same three-year span.
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No glaring injury history so he isn't a perfect Reds trade target but a BABIP lucky schlub coming into GABP will fail miserably. I have zero doubt.
 
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Took the Red Sox 86 years to finally build a team that balanced it’s pitching, defense AND hitting to fit Fenway park in 2004. They have continued to produce that model with gold glove OF play (Betts, JBJ and Benny are all home grown talent) with a mostly free agent pitching staff with a high strikeout ratio with a high average-high power bat in the middle of the lineup. It used to be said that Left handed pitching can’t win in Fenway or Yankee Stadium. well, if they can’t hit it, you can win anywhere. Sale and Price have been money.
I wonder if the Reds brass will ever figure this out. based on this trade I think they haven’t at this point.
 
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