With the firing of supervisor David Bell, among the gamers have now had an opportunity to talk with the media in regards to the transfer, in addition to the franchise. On a young-ish workforce, there aren’t many guys who’ve been round for all that lengthy now that Joey Votto has moved on. One of many gamers who has been across the longest is 2021’s Nationwide League Rookie of the Yr. Jonathan India didn’t precisely maintain again.
“We’re uninterested in dropping. It’s the identical factor yearly right here. We simply float round .500 and attempt to make the push, however we simply don’t have sufficient. We have to make a transfer. I do know what it’s, however I simply need to say it to the media.”
That’s what he advised Charlie Goldsmith of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
He appears to really feel the identical means that quite a lot of followers really feel in regards to the workforce. That the membership has been constructed to be round a .500 workforce and that’s that. If issues go proper for them, then they will contend. And he doesn’t assume that’s sufficient and that they need assistance. And he’s proper.
Look no additional than 2023. Because the workforce approached the commerce deadline they had been in first place and the one factor they did was add a center reliever. As you now know – the Reds had a dropping file after the commerce deadline, didn’t make the playoffs, and nearly the entire prospects that they held onto who had been “an overpay” and a “a part of the long run” took steps backwards this yr.
As famous the opposite day on the digital pages right here at Redleg Nation – Bob Castellini and his possession group purchased the workforce previous to the 2006 season. We’re now 19 seasons in to their possession. The Reds have completed higher than third place two occasions.
Currently, the workforce’s entrance workplace has actually gone full into the “we’re a small market” line of public discuss each time questioned about why they don’t win extra, attempt extra, add extra expertise by way of trades or free company, and so forth. Look across the Nationwide League Central. Completed doing that? How most of the 5 groups in it are “massive market” golf equipment? The reply is one. The Chicago Cubs. And but they don’t seem to be the workforce that’s been working by way of the division with 1st place finishes yr after yr after yr.
Jonathan India can see at the least a part of the issue. The workforce merely doesn’t have sufficient expertise to really compete. And he needs that to vary. A brand new supervisor may make a small distinction right here or there, however a supervisor can solely accomplish that a lot with the expertise that they’ve within the clubhouse and the Reds haven’t had sufficient of that in a very long time.
