Cishek, Strop, Chavez, Kintzler. Montgomery traded for basically nothing, All those guys horsefeathering suck too and had terrible peripherals last year and/or diminished stuff. Would you trade what we have now for the five I listed?
You invent a time machine and you don't let every good reliever from the past 3 years walk for nothing while also trying to build a bullpen completely out of AAAA Iowa Shuttle hacks Who are you referring to? Cishek, Strop, Chavez, Kintzler. Montgomery traded for basically nothing,
You invent a time machine and you don't let every good reliever from the past 3 years walk for nothing while also trying to build a bullpen completely out of AAAA Iowa Shuttle hacks
It was so long ago, did he have the typical home/road splits last year too? Reds announcers (gleefully) talked about how Kyle got his brains bashed in his last time in Cincy. Maybe it's just a bad matchup
He might have if he'd had the luxury of a third catcher, to be fair. But Ross' lineup management has definitely been A+ so far. No way Nico nor Happ would have seen their names in the lineup this often with Joe. Which would have been a shame, since Nico is raking
He also was gushing about how Pedro Strop is just the greatest player ever, nicest guy, best teammate, etc. I'm guessing you wouldn't have dig to deep to find him criticizing Pedro when he was a Cub