Red Reporter · May 9, 2017
Who the f*** is Tim Adleman?
Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesThe last 20 years or so of Reds baseball have provided us countless derivations on a particular theme: the scrub starter. The Reds have been notably bad at developing quality pitchers for a good long while (consider: the best pitching prospect developed by the Reds between Tom Browning in the mid ‘80s to Johnny Cueto in the late ‘00s was Brett Tomko) and so we have had the great displeasure of seeing an absurd chorus line of scrub starters kick their heels on the Cincinnati rubber. Some personal favorites: Joey Hamilton, Chris Michalak, Kirk Saarloos, Adam Pettyjohn, Jerry Gunglesprout, and Danny Serafini.