Locked On Reds - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds fall to 1-3 and, for some reason, Twitter has already called it and thrown in the towel. Jeff tells you to ease up a bit and have patience with this season.

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Look, there is actually math to backup the fact that bunting is not as valuable as not bunting, so why do it? It's good that the Reds aren't, even though they dropped below .500 last night. It's not because of bunting, though. Jeff details the events of last night's 4-3 loss to the Brewers.

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The Reds won one and lost one, Jeff looks at the big picture, preaches patience, and makes a plea with fans to stop booing their guys.

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Weighted runs created-plus, fielding independent pitching, matchup statistics, Joel Luckhaupt helps you and Jeff understand them all little bit better. Joel also details his Game of Thrones-like rise through the Cincinnati Reds organization (no, that's not true...description writer is at it again). This is a special off-day PIIF that goes on a bit longer to help you get through a day without baseball.

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David Bell has put together a very strong lineup for the Cincinnati Reds to oppose the Pittsburgh Pirates. Jeff breaks that down and reminisces about Marty Brennaman's first Opening Day call of a historic moment in baseball.

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There is a day each year that is more awesome than the rest. It does not come in December, November, or October. It used to be in early April, but times have changed and now it's the end of March. Opening Day is unlike any other in Cincinnati and this is the 150th such occurrence. Jeff tries to unwrap the gift that is Opening Day and enlists the help of Mo Egger, James Rapien, and Wick Terrell to help him do so.

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Sean Sears and Ryan Davis stop in to talk all things Cubs with Jeff and they all talk so long that it had to be split in too and it is still almost double the normal podcast time. Sit back and enjoy this look at the Cincinnati Reds NL Central rivals.

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Nick Senzel will be down in AAA for two weeks to push back his free agency start date. Scooter Gennett will be out until, possibly, June. There will also be 13 pitchers on the Opening Day roster. Jeff spins a web of thoughts as to how all this will affect the Reds out of the gate in 2019.

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Mo Egger joins the show to talk his trip to Arizona, the impact of some of the new rule changes, and his Opening Day starter prediction (which was right).

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C. Trent Rosecrans joins Mark Sheldon in reporting that Nick Senzel will be the starting center fielder on Opening Day. Jeff gets excited about that as well as the new food offerings at Great American Ballpark.

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