Trevor Bauer on the
#Astros
' press conference yesterday: "We don’t think it affected the game. You’re either lying or you’re a (bleeping) idiot. And don’t become a billionaire owner of a team by being a (bleeping) idiot. So, you’re lying."
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Trevor Bauer had a 7-minute response to a Q about the
#Astros
today: "I'm not going to let them forget the fact they are hypocrites. They are cheaters. They've stolen from a lot of other people, and the game itself was completely unfair."
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Reds attendance for the season: 1.388 million over 79 home dates. It's the lowest attended season in Great American Ball Park history and the franchise's lowest since 1984.
Joey Votto wrote an op-ed in the
@Enquirer
. “Only now am I just beginning to hear. I am awakening to their pain, and my ignorance. No longer will I be silent.”
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Yasiel Puig on Joey Votto: "He’s the best guy I’ve ever met in my life. ... He's having dinner with me every day, talk to me every day, text me."
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Nick Castellanos says he will take time after the season to figure out whether he will opt out of his contract. He called this year his “happiest and most consistent” season in the Majors.
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Amir Garrett: "I want everybody to think that the Cincinnati
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are, like, the cockiest team ever. We're some bat flippin', show boatin', son of guns and I want everybody to know that."
Joey Votto: "People are crying in there. People are smiling. People are hugging. It's a meaningful moment because it can be the sort of thing that you only get once, but it's also the sort of thing that you can talk about the rest of your life."
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Joey Votto: "In the back third of the game, I was yelling to my teammates, I don’t want to hit anymore. I’m done. Somebody end it. And I meant it. I didn’t want another at-bat. ... Not because I didn’t get hits, because I wanted to get some fried chicken."
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Reds home opener pregame ceremonies:
- Jonathan India presented NL Rookie of the Year award by NFL OROY Ja’Marr Chase.
- Joe Burrow will throw out the first pitch to Zac Taylor.
Justin Dunn, who grew up in Long Island, was asked how many tickets he secured for family and friends to watch his season debut at Citi Field: "Let's just say I played for free today, man."
Shogo Akiyama said the
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dugout was telling him, "run," "go," and "I love you" in Japanese when he was on 1st base. "I'm really thankful for them trying to learn Japanese. ... Whenever there’s a broadcast in Japan, they cheer even harder."
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Wade Miley heads into the All-Star break with a 7-4 record and a 2.80 ERA.
Definitely deserves some All-Star team consideration when MLB replaces unavailable NL pitchers on the roster.
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Joey Votto, who is expected to rejoin the Reds in Toronto, was asked what sights he wanted to see in his hometown: "The center of the baseball. ... Maybe the second deck, somewhere around there."
Trevor Bauer said he had to give the
#Cubs
props for chirping all night, including when he was leaving the game. "It was impressive that you can chirp at someone after you shove it up your ass for 7 2/3 innings."
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There are 20 MLB players with an OPS above 1.000 since the All-Star break. The
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have four of them: Joey Votto, Kyle Farmer, Jonathan India and Jesse Winker.
Nick Castellanos quoted in this story: “What sucks is in a great city like Cincinnati where the fan base is impeccable, it's suffocating because of ownership. I'm not saying that they are bad people. The system is bad.”
With tanking being such a topic during CBA negotiations, I found it interesting that almost immediately after it was over, two teams started trading players away. I’m sure fans in Oak and Cincy (and elsewhere) did too. So I wrote about it. Story here:
NEWS: The Reds are in agreement with free-agent outfielder Tommy Pham on a one-year deal with a mutual option for 2023, according to a source. The deal is pending a physical.
Nick Castellanos, as expected, did not inform the
#Reds
that he planned to opt out. He will return in 2021.
Reds expected to extend Trevor Bauer a qualifying offer by the deadline tomorrow.
Take a bow, Luis Castillo. The best pitcher available at the trade deadline tossed 7 1/3 shutout innings against the Blue Jays in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series. Big fist pump after striking out the side in the seventh inning.
After tonight's
#SFGiants
loss, the
#Reds
cannot finish lower than the No. 7 seed in the postseason. They will not play the
#Dodgers
in the Wild Card series.
One opposing player told Joey Votto that he hated the
#Reds
grounds crew. Votto laughed. "I thought, ‘That’s exactly what we want.' We want the opposing team to hate, be annoyed by them. ... They've carried us at times when we need energy."
Jonathan India on the Reds trading Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suárez: “Definitely frustrated, for sure. I think most of the guys in here are frustrated, but hey, it’s a business."
More reaction from India and Joey Votto:
Thom Brennaman said he made a comment that he's deeply ashamed of in an on-air FSO apology. "I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith. I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again."
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Johnny Bench in a statement: “Joe wasn’t just the best second baseman in baseball history, he was the best player I ever saw and one of the best people I’ve ever known."
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Nick Castellanos on
#Reds
being hit by 70 pitches, most in MLB: "I guess that’s just pitchers understanding that the majority of our lineup has the ability to hit a baseball over the fence. They don’t want to miss over the plate."
Tucker Barnhart said when he was in the hospital on paternity leave in Indy, he followed the
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through the gameday app because the broadcast was blacked out on his phone.
MLB blackout restrictions are no fun for anybody.
The Reds, who have one player on their active roster making more than $3 million, win 5-0 and take two games in their three-game series against the Mets and their $359 million payroll.
Yasiel Puig on why he didn’t appeal his 2-game suspension: “I don’t want to talk to Joe Torre again. ... We’re going to be on the phone for two hours and nothing is going to work."
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Eugenio Suárez reacts to his trade to the Mariners. He says it was a complete surprise to him.
On leaving the Reds: “It’s not easy. It’s tough. But I understand.”
Curt Casali: "It just makes me really sad that the fans in Cincinnati can’t see this right now because I’ve been dying to play in front of them."
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Trevor Bauer on his season with the
#Reds
: “I had probably more fun this year playing baseball than I’ve had in, shoot, a long time. Probably since college, maybe even more fun than college. That’s really the lasting impression."
Jesse Winker bought Joe Morgan's jersey last offseason and wore it today.
“I just thought for the red carpet thing, I’d pay tribute to him and just represent Cincinnati in a way that I thought everybody would be proud of.”
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Joey Votto on fanbase's frustration: "We deserve it. We have to play better. It's a failure of ours to leave such a supportive fanbase dissatisfied. We are aware of it. The cynicism, in my opinion, is completely justified."
It’s too bad the TV cameras didn’t get video of Lucas Sims tossing each ball aside. Didn’t make sense that it took so long for the umps to call for the tarp.
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In the first All-Star Game voting update, Nick Castellanos (568K) and Jesse Winker (462K) rank 2nd and 3rd among NL outfielders. Ronald Acuña Jr. (834K) leads the OFs.
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There are 5 active Black starting pitchers in MLB. Two of them, Hunter Greene and Marcus Stroman, start against each other Wednesday.
“It’s important for us to always to be ourselves and be authentic. ... There are so many kids that look up to Hunter.”
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have scored 46 runs in their first five games, a club record (at least dating to 1901). The previous record was 44 runs by the 1976 Big Red Machine team.
Trevor Bauer said he hasn't spent much time thinking about free agency. "Honestly, the most I’ve thought about it is just little creative ways to troll the fanbases on social media."
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“I have to give them props, they actually chirped all night and yelled at me all night. Normally when they get behind, they shut up real quick.”
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