Alex

Reds and Bengals

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@DaWink33 I’ll take things that make me want to turn my tv off for 500

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@bryce_spalding Don’t forget the spring breakout game in 2025

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@ObscureExReds That’s exactly why they shouldn’t have bunted. They would pitch around Elly if the bases are anything but loaded

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@FirstWordCincy Should’ve been yesterday

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@pocketsonlizzo @thomaschattwill I would actually argue you do not need the perfect angle to see this travel. You just needed an angle that didn’t crop out his feet, which is what the original post did 😂

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Pete Crow-Armstrong loses a ball in the lights and it turns into an inside-the-park home run

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@ObscureExReds Could help to have an infielder on the bench but it doesn’t matter too much. That would probably be more of a late inning lineup after a pinch hitter has entered

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@RedsInFour Nobody I’d rather have 🤷‍♂️

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@DaWink33 I know Connor Phillips did it back in March!

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@bryce_spalding Cropping out PJ Higgins 💔

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@DaWink33 Trying to break up the double play I’d assume

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@SteelCityBucs30 Is it possible he likes to sleep in?

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@JoeOleSexy1967 @JakeRabadi The series covers this past season not the upcoming season

[Dugs @yuggs513]

I’m done with the Krall defenders. I’ll leave with this. The Reds are paying the following players $8,566,500 combined:

Elly De La Cruz
Andrew Abbott
Chase Burns
JJ Bleday
Sal Stewart
Spencer Steer

$8,566,500 for those players, COMBINED. The Reds payroll is 131 million dollars.

[Dugs @yuggs513]

KeyBryan Hayes is the worst Reds front office move of my life. Why?

Reds acquired KeyBryan Hayes on July 30th, 2025. At the time they were 57-52, 3 games out of a playoff spot. They were below average in nearly every offensive category at the time but for context they were 22nd in baseball in wRC+. They answered those qualms by trading for Hayes (among others).

At the time of the trade here is where he ranked amongst qualified 3B.

AVG: 13/16
OBP: 16/16
SLG: 16/16
OPS: 16/16
wRC+: 16/16
K%: 11/16
BB%: 16/16

And you are probably thinking to yourself, well, he must have just been having a really down year. Had to be a buy low, right? NOPE.

2024 (did qualify numbers so ranked amongst guys with 350 PA’s):

AVG: 26/34
OBP: 30/34
SLG: 34/34
OPS: 34/34
wRC+: 34/34
K%: 22/34
BB%: 25/34

2023:
AVG: 5/21
OBP: 20/21
SLG: 12/21
OPS: 14/21
wRC+: 17/21
K%: 8/21
BB%: 21/21

2022:

AVG: 16/22
OBP: 18/22
SLG: 22/22
OPS: 22/22
wRC+: 22/22
K%: 13/22
BB%: 14/22

We are not just talking about a bad offensive player. We are talking about a guy who for 3.5 years of professional baseball was the worst offensive player at his position in the sport AND IT WASN’T EVEN CLOSE.

He would be considered a bad acquisition if he was being paid $500,000 and you got him for a bucket of balls from the Florence Freedom. But instead? He’s your 4th highest paid player on this years roster and you gave up a top 10 prospect to get him! Surely, this signing won’t impact the future tho. WRONG AGAIN!

Only Hunter Greene has more future money on the books than the 29 million (assuming team option is declined) KeyBryan Hayes is owed.

It was/remains a baffling move. There is no amount of defense that makes this move worth it. TJ Friedl is still playing CF because they traded for KeyBryan Hayes. The outfield was not addressed because of KeyBryan Hayes. Matt McLain has zero pressure because of KeyBryan Hayes. We are not yet 100 games into his Reds tenure and it is already an unequivocal failure. The manager is debating pinch hitting for the guy in the 4TH INNING OF MAY BASEBALL GAMES.

FIRE. NICK. KRALL.

[Trace Fowler @CBoxTrace]

State in the Union. Ball.

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@Nati_Sports And #1 on the list started for us in an elimination playoff game 😂 brutal

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@bryce_spalding Fuck it make him the closer

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

@RedsInFour Burning $50 million just to have to get on your knees and beg for an additional $15 million is a bad look