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Reds Tidbits (2011 Season)

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Jaxbuck;1942193; said:
The situation seems pretty simple to me. The Reds have cheap in house answers to at least try in LF and SS. No need to go trading for anyone at either spot. Reyes is a fucking pipe dream.
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One of Reyes, Kemp, or Johnson would make me happy. Any of the three solves a glaring weakness, and all three clubs will be dumping payroll.

Mesoraco's 19% throwing out runners behind the plate is alarming to me. Alonso is blocked. Deal them both. Neither are any use to the Reds in the next three years.
 
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Dryden;1942211; said:
One of Reyes, Kemp, or Johnson would make me happy. Any of the three solves a glaring weakness, and all three clubs will be dumping payroll.

Mesoraco's 19% throwing out runners behind the plate is alarming to me. Alonso is blocked. Deal them both. Neither are any use to the Reds in the next three years.
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Deal Mesaraco? Hell no. He will be starting next year with Hanigan. Besides, throwing out around 20% is not that bad. The average in MLB is 25-30% depending on the year. That is about 12 extra stolen bases for the year. Considering he will play about 1/2 the games, that is 6. About 1 more stolen base given up a month is in no way a deal breaker.

For comparison sake, Hernandez is at a 36% right now. If Mesaraco replaced him, that would be 5 more stolen bases at this point in the season vs. a catcher having a good throw out rate. Versus Hernandez's average rate, it would be a difference of 3. 3 more bases given up is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
 
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Dryden;1942211; said:
One of Reyes, Kemp, or Johnson would make me happy. Any of the three solves a glaring weakness, and all three clubs will be dumping payroll.

Mesoraco's 19% throwing out runners behind the plate is alarming to me. Alonso is blocked. Deal them both. Neither are any use to the Reds in the next three years.
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To me it's a matter of marginal utility. How much extra production are you going to get above what the "free" in house guys could give you and how much are you going to pay, in terms of overall resources, for that extra production? I don't think the extra production will justify the expense and even if it did, upgrading LF and SS, while helpful, isn't going to fix the pitching.

To me you are just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic unless you are making a move to fix the TOR void and I don't see many plausible fixes for that right now unless Walt pulls a minor miracle. I don't mind seeing Mesoraco or Alonzo (or any prospect) go but I'll be pissed if its for anything other than a proven MLB TOR starter who can be signed long term (good luck).

So I come back to a situation like the old joke about a guy who gets bit on the dick by a rattle snake. His buddy goes for help, doctor tells him you have to suck out the poison and he reports back to the victim that the doctor said he's going to die.

Theoretically there's a solution to the Reds problem but realistically no one is going to suck out that poison.
 
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Bucknut24;1942380; said:
pujols out 4-6 weeks with broken arm
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Oh my arm, I think its broken

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Bucknut24;1942380; said:
pujols out 4-6 weeks with broken arm
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Normally I do not wish injury on people but after seeing him get all [censored]y on another inside pitch and then stand there preening after hitting a hr.... all i can say is


karma is a BITCH
 
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