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Tyler Holton is on a legendary run

Add two more DRS for Parker

Mize desperately needs a strikeout pitch

I didnt particularly care for the one game playoff

I’m calling it now: Skubal is sick of struggling with the Royals and is going to go into his start this series and pitch a shutout with double digit Ks while boastfully screaming after each one. Meanwhile we only win 1-0 off of a McKinstry double and advance to third on a throwing error and a Jake Rogers RBI ground out out to second.

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Yep. It was a great performance lost in a black hole of a season.

Do what you will with a perfecto/no-no, but nobody better jinx the Reds right now

im still mad at him for how they pitched to Delmon Young

I remember that one but always forget Turnbull had one

They shouldn’t. Nobody gets that ball

Noooooooooo

Mustard > Mayo

Let’s go Holton!

Zach “Quintin Berry” McKinstry

Scott Sizemore sighting

Poor JHM

LFG Hanifee

These are the offensive players they wouldn’t trade for Skubal?

Odds on Nick Maton going 12-15 with 4 HRs and 19 RBIs in this series while having the leagues top web gem each game?

This year is a success if you take into account how we felt around mid-June. From the start of the year I don’t know if I feel it’s that much of a success. Our leadoff hitter and center fielder spent more than half the year in Toledo because he had such an awful start. Torkelson was so bad that we HAD to send him down and had to play utility guys at 1B for over two months. Baez somehow got even worse. Keith’s first couple months were brutal. Third base was just as big of a mess as we thought it’d be heading into the year. Carpenter missed two plus months. Maeda went from savvy depth signing to unplayable. We continuously gave Joey Wentz chances despite constant failures. Mize and Manning haven’t progressed at all. All of this on a team that we thought should solidly contend for the division. Instead, we are only close to sniffing the wild card because Skubal and Flaherty became two of the best starters in baseball, Wenceel Perez and Matt Vierling were unexpectedly valuable, and we’ve somehow managed to turn three months of Skubal/Montero plus Bullpen starts into a good working strategy. If it weren’t for Tyler Holton, Will Vest, Jason Foley and a mishmash of pitchers that no one on here had ever expected to see the big leagues, we’d be in Oakland A’s territory record-wise. Brieske, Faedo, Miller and Chafin certainly weren’t particularly impressive. Credit where it’s due though- Meadows completely turned it around in Toledo and has carried it back to the MLB, Jake Rogers has been elite calling games with a variety of pitchers, Keith kept working and turned it around in a big way, Carp has been a monster when healthy, Vierling/Ibanez/Perez all stepped up big this year, Malloy looks like he will be valuable, and a ton of low level prospects have pitched great with their opportunities. I’m not a Hinch fan, but he and Fetter have navigated the pitching staff health issues quite well. If these guys can go into next year playing with the energy and execution level that they have since the trade deadline- then next year should be a lot of fun. But if all the borderline guys regress and start slow again…….then it’ll be hard for me to say anything more than that these last two months were just a ball club of young players who were playing loose because they had no pressure on them.

If that Montero breaking ball he had the other night is consistent, then that’d be huge for our offseason plan. I’d feel a lot better having him in there as the #5 guy to start the year. Side note- with how effective Hanifee/Guenther/Madden/Huerter have been for us, I think it’s fair to put Manning back in the equation too. Toledo stats may just not be highly indicative of mlb success. Jobe and SGL probably starting in the Toledo rotation will be nice depth too. One FA starter to be a #2/#3 guy may be all we need to target for the pitching staff—although a lights out closer would be ideal also if possible. Bite the bullet and dump Maeda.

The hype for next year regardless is gonna be the highest in over a decade

6.) Give Shelby Miller a one way ticket to Korea

That free ticket gesture Gibby did is awesome. Glad to see it was lots of kids going and not just greedy adults