Wick Terrell

The Cincinnati Reds fired manager David Bell on Sunday evening, calling time on his tenure at the helm of the club just a week before the end of his 6th season in charge. The Reds won 409 games under his command, lost 455, and watched him get ejected approximately 944 times in that span.

The Cincinnati Reds are still contractually obligated to play a few more baseball games despite the fact they’ve been eliminated from postseason contention, clinched yet another losing season, and fired their manager.

Long before I ever even thought about sitting at a keyboard to write about baseball, years before the Cincinnati Reds began their rapid decline into irrelevance, eons before social media, there was day baseball in Wrigley Field on the north side of Chicago.

Remember how Joey Votto used to knock the snot out of every single pitch Kyle Hendricks ever threw him?

Jack Flaherty, Shohei Ohtani, and the Los Angeles Dodgers absolutely eviscerated the New York Mets last night in Game 1 of the National League Championship at Dodger Stadium, laying waste to their contra-coastal brethren to the tune of 9 to zip.

They didn’t lose it, either.

The Reds made a myriad, not a flurry, of roster moves.

Roster moves galore have set the stage for winter spending!

What’s left for the offense within the payroll?

A closer look at the linchpin of the Cincinnati Reds offseason payroll decisions.