Regular season: Ex-Reds

[JohnU]

I see where SS Choo is on the DL again. He's been more busty than trusty for the Rangers.

And our buddy Toddfather never fails to light one up. 10 home runs despite a Mendoza average. And a granny.

 

[Hit-n-Run]

But look how happy The Cardinals are with Mike Leake. He's posted a 0-3 record with a 6.03 ERA and has allowed 4 or more runs every start.

Nothing against Leake... but you gotta love it.

 

[JohnU]

Leake isn't going to mysteriously become Zack Greinke either. He's the back end of the rotation for most teams and was really no better than No. 4 for the Reds. I always liked the game the guy brought to the ballpark and he battled a lot of tough luck in a stadium that didn't fit his pitching style. He would have been wiser to stay in the NL-W.

 

[JohnU]

I see the hate-fest is underway in Boston with the arrival of Aroldis to NYY.

 

[Redsfan1507]

Hey, Leake was an overachiever...an athletic 5'10 175 pounder, in a league of 6'5 230's, a 7th round pick taken #1, ok ? Choo, had a rental minute, but between too much Sake early, mangers with 2 year deals and urgency issues and those ever thickening thighs late, hammies and time are inevitably going to Josh Hamilton him. Frazier was a #3 pick taken in the first round, a slow shortstop that couldn't field, that wound up being a pretty solid 3b and 6 hitter, on a team needing him the hit 6th, 2nd and cleanup. In two years, he'll be a $17M /year platoon player. Drew Stubbs was a 14th round pick taken in the first round. He's already platooning somewhere and they never ask him to bunt or recognize a curveball. Life is probably better for all those guys than they were for the Reds, honestly.

Johnny Cueto, and Aroldis Chapman are a different class completely. The Reds were lucky to have stumbled onto them at all, much less have the sense to have kept them instead of other regrettable choices.