After tanking for several years to foster a rebuild, the Reds cut-and-ran on the rebuild. Now they throw poor Nick Krall to the media heathens and ask him to make chicken salad. Nick might do great things as the The Club’s GM. Right now, all The Big Man wants him to do is whack salaries and extoll the team’s most recent vision for success.
We’re “aligning payroll with resources,’’ doncha know. We’re striving to be consistently good and cheap, like the Rays, with a plan that historically has, well, wandered.