Ok Reds Fans

but the only memory i like to recall is when he went to the nationals.
To see someone with the kind of raw talent any wuss fan would kill to have. But he just did not care. the air of a texas frat boy for whom everything was easy. He has tremendous talent, sure, but i want to root for a team of guys i could imagine liking in real life, and Adam was never that.

You haven’t spent much time around these parts.

Walk off slam against Cleveland is the easy choice. But I also fondly recall Adam’s rookie year at Wrigley when he bombed one over my head onto Sheffield ave.

I won’t stop being a Reds fan just because they traded him, but he’s been my favorite baseball player for years and he still is. He was the best Cincinnati Red since Barry Larkin and his offensive ability and sense of humor are missed. He didn’t deserve all the hate he got and while I do miss his presence, I also think it was time for him to move on. I’d welcome him back with open arms, but I’d be absolutely shocked if the Reds did at any point in the future.

I loved his OBP and self-effacing attitude.

I know that Reds is going good this year. I sense that! As they pick a good lineup here….

that Dunn has such a rep for being lazy. You don’t hit 40 HRs every year just from showing up to the game. He’s a bad defender, but I doubt it’s due to laziness. But because the shape of his performance was so polarizing, he became the scapegoat for all the Reds losing. Now he’s gone, and we’re still losing. Any way that the Dunn haters can spin that, it also happens to be a defense for Dunn.

Any time a discussion of Dunn comes up, it always amazes me the way he seems to bring out the strongest and most obstinate opinions and emotions of everyone. I guess strikeouts/low AVG and bad defense are a combo that is unforgivable to a lot of fans, regardless of whether you’re still a good player.

There was a little photo thing, “path to the pros” on the milb site. Stupid flash you can’t post a link, but go to this page

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/multimedia/galleries.jsp

and go to the 3rd page in November.

Baseball America reports that Cincinnati signed: RHP Jon Adkins (Lotte (Korea)), RHP Federico Baez (re-signed), RHP Po-Cheng Chi, LHP Alexander Smit (re-signed), C Brandon Yarbrough, SS Chris Burke, OF Kevin West (Winnipeg (Northern))

Adkins went 3-5, 3.70 last season and led the Korean Baseball Organization with 26 saves. He grew up following the Reds and rejoins the organization for which he last pitched in 2008. Adkins’ cousin, Tim, pitched in the reds organization for a while and is a former pitching coach at Marshall. Both Adkins boys starred at Wayne High School, just outside of Huntington.

West was the Twins’ 16th-round pick in 1999 and hit 37 home runs while playing for Winnipeg the past two seasons. In 2009, he batted .285 with 19 HR and 66 RBIs in 94 games.

Yarbrough was in AAA with the Cardinals last season, where in 119 AB he posted a line of 1-12-.286 .393 .387. He is 25.

Po-Cheng Chi is the third players the Reds have signed out of Taiwan. He reportedly was given a $100,000 bonus, which roughly equates to seventh-round money. Chi is a side-armer with a 90 mph fastball. He is said to also throw a slider, a change, a splitter and a sinker.

Smit, some thought, might be selected in the Rule 5 Draft. Obviously, he wasn’t.

Put a good lineup around him so he has protection and his average and hit will improve. The Yankees are a team that would love his patience at the plate and I bet they could get his K’s reduced.

but your love for Dunn is shocking. It was always clear to me by his body of work that he did not care to live up to his potential, and there are no stats for that.

I never hated him, but I was never in love with him, either. He’s a good player, but not my type.

I don’t think he’s lazy, and the strikeouts didn’t bother me. His bad defense did.

I guess being in NY, I’ve seen far too many all-bat, no-glove DH types. I want outfielders who can, well…field.