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Is the Reds manager search devolving into factions? | Steve Mancuso

Joel Sherman of the New York Post is a reporter who Walt Jocketty and Bob Castellini will have in their old paper rolodexes and inclined to leak to on their flip phones.

#Reds are said to be looking more for face of franchise type as manager so Girardi might make more sense there or John Farrell. Both are championship managers who have interviewed with Cincy.

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) October 12, 2018

This thinking would take the organization in the opposite direction of what I wrote about the other day — many of the successful teams are hiring young managers who would be open to and good at communicating information from the front office to players.