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The Real Dalic wrote:It sucks that I had to miss these last two games. The Rays offense has finally come to life, and we demolished the Yanks these last two games. Hopefully they can keep this scoring up!

It was fun to watch

Hannigan now has three dinners......want to bet he finishes the year with 6 or less? Lol.

He did have 6 rbis's.......great night for him.

And it is amazing to watch him work a game from behind the plate. BA was making a point of it last night, and hannigans communication with Archer from the ready position was very insightful. He was a big part of why the Reds pitching staff was ranked in the top five the past couple of years.

Ray's drop final game of series in 12 innings.

The Rays had plenty of opportunities to put runs on the board but didn't. The game never should have made it into extra innings.

Ramos pitched well today though.

craig01 wrote:

The Real Dalic wrote:It sucks that I had to miss these last two games. The Rays offense has finally come to life, and we demolished the Yanks these last two games. Hopefully they can keep this scoring up!

It was fun to watch

Hannigan now has three dinners......want to bet he finishes the year with 6 or less? Lol.

He did have 6 rbis's.......great night for him.

And it is amazing to watch him work a game from behind the plate. BA was making a point of it last night, and hannigans communication with Archer from the ready position was very insightful. He was a big part of why the Reds pitching staff was ranked in the top five the past couple of years.

I'm a big Hanigan fan. Didn't know a thing about him until the day I saw we traded for him. Immediately became a fan because he gets Molina out of the lineup. Molina has his value in stealing strikes, aka "framing pitches", but he is absolutely hideous with a bat. Hanigan has a great career OBP, and I was excited to see us adding that to our lineup. The power bat from him early on is a pleasant surprise, but I do think he will knock more than 6 out . I think he's got 15 in him actually. I'll split the difference with ya and say 10 is a conservative estimate.

A few things I think need to happen for us to get better.. Forsythe needs to go. His skill set is exactly identical to SRod. No need for 2 of that kind of player. Replace him with a hot bat from AAA (Sands maybe?). DeJesus is trying to play through an injury and doing a horrible job. Shelf your pride and hit the DL. Replace him with Kiermier for a few weeks. Lueke is not a major league pitcher. His minor numbers are great, but he gets smoked every time he comes up. We have too many quality relievers waiting in Durham to keep letting Lueke lose games for us. Give someone else a chance.

Unfortunately, none of those things addresses our starting rotation issue. Let's hope Ramos can give us a few more starts like yesterday, and hope Cobb and Hellickson come back quick!

I wasn't really thrilled with the forsythe acquisition.

And to your point he is basically Sean Rodriguez x 2. Which adds another non-productive bat into the lineup when he plays. Batting him third the other day just did not make sense to me at all.

I wasn't really thrilled with the forsythe acquisition.

And to your point he is basically Sean Rodriguez x 2. Which adds another non-productive bat into the lineup when he plays. Batting him third the other day just did not make sense to me at all.

Bedard and Bell were awful yesterday.

Ugh

Balfour needs to start throwing strikes. Ugh

Pretty soon, if things do not change, I would like to see McGee get a shot at the closer role.

Inevitably, I think that may happen anyway.

Its been a disappointing last 2-3 weeks.

Something needs to happen. Not sure what. It could be trades, benching, or something. It would just be nice to turn this around early in the year. These injuries to our pitchers is hurting us.

Offense sucks. I've been saying it that its not enough.

The Real Dalic wrote:Something needs to happen. Not sure what. It could be trades, benching, or something. It would just be nice to turn this around early in the year. These injuries to our pitchers is hurting us.

Jmo, but I think it's still too early to shake anything up.

And yes, the rotation has been under a lot of stress, however, the offensive woes create even more on them.

Optimus_Steel wrote:Offense sucks. I've been saying it that its not enough.

Myers getting productive would change a lot of things offensively.