00:00uh terry francona uh reds manager i guess he was elated to find out that uh it looks like nobody
00:08from the front office is being let go so does that mean francona likely safe at least for another
00:13year craig what do you think yeah i i guess so it sounds like it it's uh you know a
00:18little
00:18surprising because yeah you know they just i i thought they underperformed this year in a very
00:29sort of my thinking here too is that if you are the owner of the reds and terry francona i
00:35don't
00:35know how much he's making but let's assume it's a lot five million six million i believe he's one
00:39of the highest paid managers joe it is probably easier to just keep him and have him come back
00:45next season and see if they could turn it around as opposed to having to go out and get and
00:48pay two
00:48managers next year so uh i i don't think terry francona gets fired i think he ends up retiring
00:55whenever that is but i've made it pretty clear that to me they were one of the more disappointing
00:59teams in baseball and the way they were blown out in games and not scoring in games with all
01:04that talent that they had and if if they finished 81 and 81 you'd look at the reds and say
01:09okay
01:10it wasn't the year that we thought they would have but they're not finishing 81 81 they're lucky if
01:16they finish with 75 wins at this point they've they've just had a very disappointing year with a
01:21ton of talent oh rookie of the year they once sal stewart is the favorite of the rookie of the
01:27year
01:27you got ellie de la cruz right having a career year 284 uh 27 home runs i they should have
01:35been
01:35much better but hunter green again uh back to tommy john surgery he won't be back until 2028
01:41the burns was the earliest burns is great they're they've got some decisions i think they still have
01:47to make it greg in the offseason uh it's i don't think it's a lack of talent but you know
01:53that pitching
01:53staff still worries me here a little bit especially if you're not going to have hunter green and then
01:58you're wondering so who in the world is cincinnati who could a team like cincinnati go out and get
02:04they're not going to get scoble they're not right i mean they're right so they better have some farm
02:09system and a lot of players that we just haven't heard about yet yeah and they play la tonight they'll
02:16probably lose but yeah they uh the the pitchers that are available like the top free agents outside of
02:21scoble casey mize will be a free agent so somebody will overpay for him and then nick martinez from
02:28the rays is a free agent but the reds already had him once and they they said they didn't want
02:32him
02:32anymore he's been great so so yeah maybe via trade that that could be and look november is going to
02:39come
02:39joe and i i think we could get a little surprise in november i think that with a potential lockout
02:45coming in december i i think for the first time since you and i have been doing this 20 25
02:52years
02:52i think we could have a heavy free agency in november this year before the lockout i think
02:58i think some signings could happen
02:59i think some signings could happen
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