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Originally Posted by RendeR
I know I'm sorely out of touch with my Reds, but ummm...
Can someone tell me who these bozos are and what they did with the real Cincinnati Reds?
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This is the main thing that keeps me from getting back into baseball.
Teams like the Reds seem to have a revolving door for players, while teams like the Yankees pick and choose from the ones who are too expensive for the Reds to re-sign when contracts expire.
Then you have a team the next season that has few familiar faces, and for me, its hard to get into that. I feel like I am watching a local low-level minor league team where a few guys are just stuck playing low level ball and others are there for a year or part of a year, and then gone.
Guys like Cueto and Volquez will be gone within a few seasons too, I would be willing to bet. If they pitch to their abilities, they will be too expensive for the Reds, and they will probably want to play for a team with a better shot at a title anyway.
I feel more optimistic about the Bengals chances at a title than I do the Reds, and that says something I think.
To believe that any Reds team will ever be able to compete for a title again for more than a year or two at a time would be dreaming, IMO.