Wow
It didn't take long for the Dodgers to rattle Matt Belisle. Leadoff batter Rafael Furcal hit the ball 378 feet into right field for a home run. Russell Martin doubled. Andre Ethier walked. Matt Kemp struck out swinging to end the inning, but it was undoubtedly not the start Belisle wanted upon his return from the DL.
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Post a Comment*I have about as much confidence in Belisle out there on the mound as I did with Fogg out there.
More errors hurting this team.Usual suspects.
3-0 top of the 2nd.
When will the reds figure out chasing the other team all game is NOT a recipe for success.
Good thing I have to leave early tonight,I don't think this is going to be pretty.
After watching Belisle for two innings, can we put Fogg back in the rotaion?
Starting pitching remains the #1 problem here. The offensive is off to a mediocre start but will come around (especially when we're sloughing off the Castros and adding the Hairston Jrs.) and will come around more when Bruce gets here.
BRUCE
KEPPINGER
PHILLIPS
GRIFFEY
DUNN
VOTTO
EE
BAKO
is one FINE lineup.
Maybe with Hairston leading off that lineup works too.
But without 2 Volquez's and 2 Cuetos to go with 1 Harang, we have a team that will finish between 10 and 20 games under .500, and we don't need a right handed batter or a better catcher or anything else except Votto, Kepp, and Bruce to be everyday players here, and 2 more starting pitchers.
Arroyo, Belisle, Affeldt, Fogg...each are not worth much to a team trying to get back to .500+
And you were expecting what exactly? The guy had a 5 ERA last year.
'But without 2 Volquez's and 2 Cuetos to go with 1 Harang, we have a team that will finish between 10 and 20 games under .500"
Sorry, but a team with Harang, Cueto, Volquez, Cordero in the pen, and Homer on the way, should be better than 10 and 20 games under .500.
yes..yes..yes..Hairston certainly is an offensive powerhouse
Hairston leading off? Dear God.
you put the youngsters on the field..you may actually get a winning ballclub..Can it be any worse than the 7 past seasons?
This organization has thing for Belisle. Krivksy handed him the starting job in November after a year with an ERA of over 5.30. His performance tonight is merely an extension of last year's poor showing. Belisle is not starting material. Sadly, I am sure the Reds will give him another two or three starts to "work on things", which will back an already anemic offense further into the corner.
The media in this town, both on the radio and in print, keeps saying that Belisle has good stuff. I'm not seeing that at all, nor do any of his numbers support it. There's nothing worse than being told something other than what the numbers say. Homer Bailey is not this bad.
Wow is an exclamation usually used to express surprise. But Matt Belisle has a significant body of work that indicates he has well-below-average ability to get Major League hitters out. This is what we watched him do consistently last year, and there was no reason to believe he had suddenly gotten better.
Krivsky and the Reds' beat writers all saying Belisle was our #3 starter right behind Harang and Arroyo all offseason, and even through most of spring training, was absurd and disgusting.
On the positive side, 60% of the rotation was terrible last year. This year, Volquez and Cueto have moved that % down quite a bit.
EE is a veteran, not a "youth" despite his actual age.
Hairston is part of the "youth" movement despite being much older than EE.
The "youth movement" is simply a call for the young or unproven minor leaguers to come here and produce.
After all, most of the old guys are NOT producing.
Not yet. Giving up on Dunn and Griffey is not in the cards. Phillips's slow start is not a big worry either.
Any other major league team would be playing Jay Bruce daily. KC did so with Gordon last year. Longoria is up for Tampa Bay. The Dodgers and Detroit and Boston have no problem putting talented youth into big games.
Only the stupid Reds do. That's why it's not just losing that's the problem, it's the way the management and owner operate that is so annoying much of the time.
Also annoying is these obese more-than-one-year deals for unproven players, when we have far more talented and just as unproven players in AAA.
PATHETIC!!
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