Perhaps it’s Delino DeShields we should be talking to this week. The current 1B coach of the Cincinnati Reds might well be on of the best reference points in the entire organization when it comes to October baseball and this club’s recent - err, semi-recent history.
Delino DeShields played in over 1600 games in his career, and never once did so in a Reds uniform. And that’s kind of the point here.
While never a Reds player, the 51 year old speedster did go up against them quite often, as he spent 11 years of his career in the National League.