It’s the day Walt Jocketty became General Manger of the Cincinnati Reds. He was initially brought into the organization as a Special Advisor on January 11 of that same year. The Special Advisor role was just as it sounds: to advise the Reds within its baseball operations part of the organization. For those that remember when Jocketty was brought on board, you had to know that time for Wayne Krivsky would be short…and it was.

With the recent inactivity of the Reds in making trades and/or signing free agents over the time Walt has been at the helm, it got me thinking about those trades he did make. Like with any deal, they can be dissected every which way possible. I’m no different. Let’s review one of those deals.

Oh, and you will be the judge if the trade was “tremendous” or “tragic”.
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Election season is upon us and it’s always a temptation to look toward the new, the young, the next generation and to call for the next guy in line.  Even in baseball, especially when a Drew Stubbs has so many strikeouts and Jay Bruce appears so…clutch-less at times.  And like any other campaign, you will have supporters of both sides coming up with reasons for and reasons against and they will probably contain more half truths than you’d hear at your local bar scene.

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