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I hope the Reds can have a solid pitching year and get up over the .500 mark.

What do you guys think they will do this year?

13 UNDER .500

Reds will have Aaron Harang,Bronson Arroyo, Matt Belisle, Homer Baily and Edinson Volquez. No lefties in the rotation.

With Aaron Harang the Reds went 24 and 10 in his starts and 48 and 80 in all other games.

Arroyo had 20+ quality starts but won only 9 games-- he just didn't get the run support

The rest of these guys need to improve command of their fastball

they picked up a lefty today,Jeremy Affeldt. he was in the bullpen in colorado but should have a shot at the rotation. he was in 75 games with a 4-3 record and a 3.51 ERA. Left-handed hitters batted .250 against him and right-handers hit .211

watch out for Baily, he's gonna be good. then the reds will trade him. but he'll be good while he lasts in cinci

Thursday jan 24th from 6 to 8 pm , Dusty baker , ryan freel, reds broadcasters, mr red , will be at the grand central mall.

ace63 wrote:Thursday jan 24th from 6 to 8 pm , Dusty baker , ryan freel, reds broadcasters, mr red , will be at the grand central mall.

They must have alot of confidence in Jay Bruce to trade Hamilton.

But I expect Bronson to rebound after a subpar year last year, and hopefully win the weakest division in all of baseball.

Jay bruce was the reds minor league player of the year . he will also be at the grand central mall,

I think the reds will be good this year not great. maybe 2nd or 3rd in the central. They have shown us that they are not willing to shell out big money for good pitching(starting pitching). Maybe they can dump Dunn Before the allstar break for a solid arm.With the line up we have we don't need Dunns strike outs.

I wish we would have never got rid of hamilton. FINE PLAYER, and i agree we need to get rid of Dunn for a good starter. Wed dont need him striking out 300 times a year. We got some good young player like Norris Hooper, and Jay Bruce that can play in the outfield and turn into some pretty good major league players. I just hope that the pitching staff holds up and are bullpen has a good year, one way to get a good bullpen would be to get rid of Mike Stanton and Todd Cofey, I HATE THEM.

GO REDS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember an interview Marty gave a couple years back, when the Reds' had Dunn, Griffey and Kearns in the OF, he said that the Reds chances of winning were very low due to the type of hitters they were and where they batted in the lineup(i.e. - to many K's). I'd have to say that he's been right on the money so far. If the Red's are .500 this year, I'll consider it a good year. The best thing is that after 2008, we get rid of Griffey & Dunn to free up some salary for KEY free agents. With the young talent coming up, I like the Reds in '09 and beyond.

i wish the reds put more effort into trying to aquire eric bedard that wouldhave put them as the favorite in the division for sure

gtowntiger78 wrote:I remember an interview Marty gave a couple years back, when the Reds' had Dunn, Griffey and Kearns in the OF, he said that the Reds chances of winning were very low due to the type of hitters they were and where they batted in the lineup(i.e. - to many K's). I'd have to say that he's been right on the money so far. If the Red's are .500 this year, I'll consider it a good year. The best thing is that after 2008, we get rid of Griffey & Dunn to free up some salary for KEY free agents. With the young talent coming up, I like the Reds in '09 and beyond.

Its not a issue of freeing up salery. The Reds are going to have to spend more money period. Griffey doesn't make that much money, and if the Reds were going to get rid of Dunn then they would not have picked up his option.I give them two more years after this year to really start contending for the Central. That will give them time to see what there prospects can do and bring in the right players.
Griffey had a good year last season and I think that he can have two more just like that. There hitting is fine and there pitching is OK, the one thing everyone seems to overlook is there defense. It has been bad for a few years and they really need to work to improve that. I feel that they started to work on it last year. Lets hope they continue to do so this year.

I honestly feel they will be just fine in 2008. They are going to be a contender this year.

FalconFan wrote:I honestly feel they will be just fine in 2008. They are going to be a contender this year.

I think they will finish no worse than third.

Im thinking reds will be IN FIRST PLACE !!!!!!!!

Go REDS

ace63 wrote:Im thinking reds will be IN FIRST PLACE !!!!!!!!

You probably thought the same thing about the Bengals.

manwithplan wrote:

ace63 wrote:Im thinking reds will be IN FIRST PLACE !!!!!!!!

You probably thought the same thing about the Bengals.

I wish