Reds v Tards They still our daddy?

This team can't afford to lose any games over having no bench. I don't care if it's game one. The reason you field a team is to win. What is the upside of pitching 3 of your best relievers 3 out of 4 of the first 4 games if you have so many options because you are not one turn through? If it's a extra inning game tomorrow and Lorenzen and isglasies is needed, you ok with them pitching 4 out of 5 with 5 more guys in the pen? Because I am not. Not to count you have NO bench.

I hate the 4 man bench. Hell I hate the 5 man bench. I am old enough to remember 7 men bench with only 4 sp 5 bull pen guys and a swing man. The swing man being used to start double headers or long stretches with no off days. I remember Reds and Cubs 3 game series from the 70s when Bruce Sutter pitched 4 inns first game came back very next day and pitched 3 inn. and came back 3rd day and threw a inn. Pitchers are babied from little league on up.
I believe all this summertime and in alot of cases playing well into the fall with these travling teams is what is hurting all these young arms.


If you had a son who was good enough to be on these travling teams would you want him at age 12-18 be playing from march- Oct?
No way would I want this. A friend of mine has a son age 13 who does this. He travles as far away as South Carolina to play. He is not a kid who pitches much. He is so good of a SS and power hitter he don't pitch much. But many many young kids do. They of course limit inns for the kids from the age they start pitching to the majors.
Now years ago kids played spring into early summer and that was it. Major leaguers bull pen gus pitched as many as 4-5 straight days. But once season was over most never picked up a ball till spring training. I dont know the answers but I know there is far more injures today than there was years ago. Either that or guys back than just pitched with hurt arms/elbows and kept there mouth shut.


Back to the original point about benches. We in my earliest rememberance the 70s teams carried 10 pitches. But before that it was 9. Then sometime in the 80s or early 90s went to 11. 2000s went to 12. Now it is 13 for at least half of the teams. And within the next 2-3 mark my words every single team will carry 13 pitches and 4 men benches.
Either mlb has to do 1 of 3 things 1. add a 26 man to the rosters for every game not just the rainout double headers and specify each team must carry only 13 pitchers and 13 hitters. 2. Dh will be in both leagues. It is not that bad on A.L. teams to carry 3 extra hitters when the pitcher isn't in the lineup. All they need is a extra c and extra IFer and Ofer. 3. teams will have at least two bench guys who can play both IF. and OF. plus at least one good hitting reliever who can play in the OF as well as pitch. One of these things IMO will happen.

Then, I'm sure you're going to love to hear the fact Daytona is going to roll with a 6-man rotation at least initially to start the year.   These some extra factors in plays, as only 2 guys spent all of last year in the rotation.   Jonathan Crawford pitched very, very few innings due to injuries; Cuban signee Vladimir Gutierrez didn't pitch at all; and Jose Lopez/Wendolyn Bautista each split time between the rotation & bullpen.   There's some stretching out and inning limits in play, but yeah...a 6 man rotation

handed them game today with the lineup and yo-yo. now on crappy Feldman to win series.

I hope the experiment with Yo Yo is over. What have we gained here? Did we learn anything new? I thought one of the reasons we traded Phillips was to keep a player from blocking a younger one. Then the next day we sign Yo Yo. I'd rather see the young guys get a shot. I can live with growing pains but this is just an unwarranted pain. Then what was the crap with resting multiple players today. It's the 5th game of the year. I thought were trying to win games here. I hope this isn't a pattern. Quit playing the nice guy. Look what happened when they played nice guy. Bad contracts and holding onto friends (players) to long.

I would put Reed into the rotation and send Stephenson down. Finnegan, Feldman, Garrett, Reed, and Davis. Yo gotta go. Less velocity, less control, more bombs. Today was pathetic. The team walked 12 batters. The starting 8 today was pure stupidity. They haven't even gotten into a groove and you rest 3 fuckin starters? I can understand keeping an 8 man pen and a short bench when your rotation is so volatile. Resting 3 position players in 1 game, wow...

Well what do you do Eric? That is my point. We don't have an endless stream of options. We are going to have to live with some of these guys. Who is in your rotation? I have been anti Stephenson since the offseason. That leaves us with Reed or Romano. I don't want to see Arroyo or Adelman either. Castillo is in AA. You don't like anybody and I don't much either. That's the problem. But other than getting another bench player and not using our best bullpen pitchers I'm not hearing a lot of solution ideas out of you. What is your roster as opposed to what we have now? And I'm not sittin here toe tapping waiting to shoot whatever you say down. We knew we had a rotation problem. I think 5 games in we give everybody a few starts except Stephenson.