The Reds have a new manager and it’s a guy with a track record.  Love him or hate him, Dusty Baker is the new Reds manager and while he has his knocks, he’s also had his share of successes.  He took the Giants to the World Series in 2002 and then he took the Cubs further then any other manager in the last 100 years back in 2003.

One of his knocks with the Cubs was how he abused his starters but he never had the pen there so it’s somewhat hard to criticize.  In Cincinnati, the Reds have neither the starters or the pen to abuse so it’ll be interesting to see how things goes.  Baker also has a tendency of going with veterans over rookies so it’ll be interesting to see how guys like Jay Bruce are brought along.

What I want to see are some quality signings.  I’d also like a long term deal for Adam Dunn but that looks unlikely.  It’ll be an interesting winter.

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