What is wrong with the Cincinnati Reds?

If they can split the series with the Mets this week, they're in great shape; if, for nothing else, at least the wildcard.

The Reds are pretenders this year. They have a core of young starters who can turn that into contenders rather quickly if they develop and continue to develop. The weak bullpen hurts though.

Offensively they are never going to be consistant while they are an all or nothing team. Whiff machines like Dunn, Kearns, Lopez and Griffy will kill rally after rally. To KO is the worst thing you can do with runners on base. At least put the ball in play and force the other team to field it cleanly. 111 KOs out of a non-power hitting shortstop is unacceptable. Dunn's 150+ KOs every year steal all the thunder from his power. Dunn's 195 KOs in 04 was insane. Griffy had taken to swinging for the fences and it has turned him from a great hitter to an average hitter. 93 KOs in less than 500 AB is too much. Kearns managed to break the 100 KO mark in less than 400 ABs. McCracken strikes out far too often for somebody with as little power as he has. Aurilia and Hattenburg are the only two in the line up not generating wind. Even Larue is a windmill. No team has ever made it to the series that I'm aware of which had so many KO artists in the same lineup. You can survive one. You can do it if you have a few but they are spread out in the lineup or down at the bottom.

To me the really high KO totals means the Reds need to fire thier hitting instructor and possibly the manager as well. It just destroys thier offense. These guys get up and on a good day hit home runs. The rest of the time they strike out. Runners get left on base, rallies killed, no reason to steal a base or try bunting or other NL tactics. The next guy is going to KO or homer anyway. Most often KO. So on a good day they can rip up weak pitching. Especially in a hitter friendly park. On a bad day, especially in a pitcher friendly park they are toast. No way to win those close games or pitcher duels.

go white sox the white sox just tortured the reds in the last series it shows u they have nothing they didnt even compete that well with the defending champs and they needed to they are pretenders by far all they need is bullpen help and they will be fine though and make it to the playoffs but to lose in the first round

Give the new owner and GM a couple more years to put together a real contender... this year they're overachieving

Nope. i'm a die tense Rays fan and that i've got fatheads head of Tulo and Posey in my room. as long because of the fact the Yanks are your variety one team and you will %. them over the different team no rely what, it rather is not incorrect. it rather is purely a hat lol.

3 major reasons for their inconsistencies; Fix these 3 things, quick, and we will have arguably the best team in baseball. See below why we will "sink" if this doesn't change.

signed,

A life long, die hard, love my Red's fan!

1.PITCHING

2.PITCHING

3.PITCHING

They are in Ohio thats the main thing, Last one in Ohio turn out the lights

Everything

whats wrong with them is that they're not the white sox. other than that, they seem fine to me.

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