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The Reds Didn’t Even Want To Be On Sunday Night Baseball, Anyway. So There.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, these grapes are not sour. (Photo by Chris Campbell/Flickr) ESPN has announced it’s Sunday Night Baseball schedule for the first half of the 2013 season, and the...
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Reds Arbitration Filing Numbers Released: Choo, Latos, Leake, Bailey, Simon,...
Mike Leake and the Reds were $850,000 apart from each other. (photo by dbking/Flickr) EDIT: Added Simon and Heisey. All numbers are available here. So far, only one Red has avoided arbitration for sure...
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Seven Not-So-Great Reds Franchise Records
Sometimes franchise records are good, like Joey Votto being the dreamiest OBPiest dreamiest Reds player of all time. Johnny Vander Meer (center): Best Lapels in Reds history. (Photo Courtesy of the...
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Wow, There’s Actually Some Reds News: Spring Training Broadcasts, Rolen,...
Isn’t it amazing? We’ve actually had Reds news the last couple days. It’s not exactly the most exciting stuff in the world. But… news! This picture has been out for awhile, but I think Chapman kinda...
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A Pre-Spring-Training Public Service Announcement
Look! It’s so sunny, and palm-y and Brancusi-y. (Photo by Michael J. Mandeville, Flickr) Even though a blizzard is just about to blow through the north-east, it’s really almost time for there to be...
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A Shin-Soo Choo Movie + Bonus Choo HS Stats
Pretty sure Choo is the hatless kid in the back. No idea on which one is Lee. For your daily dose of Choo news – earlier this week, it was announced that Look Asia, a movie production company has...
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Reds Haven’t Yet Built The Lineup That’ll Keep Johnny Cueto Down
Photo by crymzn/Flickr I think a lot about the differences between pitchers on the same team. Afterall, they mostly play their games in the same ballpark, in front mostly the same defense, and...
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Reds In The Post-Rolen, Post-Cairo Era
I’ll miss you, Scott and Miguel. But not too, too much. (Photos by Keith Allison/Flickr) It’s a strange thing – though generally the Reds had very low turnover this offseason, the opening day roster...
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Buy The 2013 SlydePress Redleg Pre-Season Annual!
Now, that it’s been a few days since its breathtaking debut, I’m going to remind all of you to go buy the 2013 SlydePress Redleg Annual. http://www.redlegannual.com. You probably already know what that...
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Three Classic Reds Videos For Your Sunday Evening
The Cincinnati Reds, as you may know, have been around a long time. Video cameras have been around less long. I mean, unless you count that phot0-animation running horse thing. And, that, only if you...
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C-ing Red Guest Post! Mr. Tiger Tells Us How Old The Reds Are.
Note: I am “out” this week, preparing some stuff on the World Baseball Classic, that will appear on Aerys’s Around the Horn blog. To fill in, I’ve asked… my fiance to write up a blog post for you....
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Weird List Of The Day: Giving Birth To Minor League Team Names
I had a hard trouble assigning the Bats. Are they mammals? Or long pieces of White Ash? (Photo by BubbaFan/Wikimedia Commons) Right now, the Cincinnati Reds are in spring training, and not much...
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How Many Plate Appearances Did The Reds Bench Get In 2012?
Recently, my fiance, Mr. Tiger, who briefly guest blogged last week, started up his own blog for baseball analysis, called “(Alex) Gordian Knot.” If you don’t know who Alex Gordon is, or the story of...
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El Choo-pacabra Vs. The Reds Lineup
(Photo by Keith Allison) No, not the Cincinnati Reds rotation, as we already know about Choo’s 4 career home runs against Bronson Arroyo, and the two he hit against Mike Leake last year should probably...
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Chapman To The Pen: Redux
(Photo by Keith Allison/Flickr) Doesn’t it sort of feel like we’ve been here before? This is pretty much exactly like last year, when the Chapman-starting-pitcher experiment happened, and then didn’t...
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The Unknowable Future of Mike Leake’s Bat
Well, since we do seem to be looking at another season of the “Mike Leake: Pretty Decent for a 5th Starter” show, I thought I’d dwell a little bit more on something that Leake brings to the table that...
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Establishing A Mendoza Line For OBP
Also, he had such fantastic style. Why not have one? OBP won’t tell you everything, but I basically use it instead of average, so I’d like to have a really bottom level benchmark. It’s tempting to...
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Picking A Reds Scapegoat: 2013 Edition
Baaah. Well, after five games the Reds are 3-2. That’s a .600 winning record, which comes out to about 97 wins on the season. Even if we lost tomorrow – that’s going .500 in half of our games against...
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Looking For Bright Spots While Losing To The Stupid Cardinals
Photo by Keith Allison/Flickr Incidentally, I still hate the Cardinals, of course, but at this point it’s pretty much for the fun of it. Tony LaRussa is gone. Chris Carpenter is (sorta?) gone. Other...
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IT IS TIME TO PANIC, THE REDS ARE DOOMED
It may be early in the season, but I think it might be true. After opening the season with a great 5-2 record, we’ve now dropped four in a row. If we extrapolate these four games through the rest of...
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