With 10 video games of this 2022 season, the Cincinnati Reds have actually won just two times. Their -24 run differential says that's no fluke, and both that and the group's overall document are the most awful amongst Big league Baseball's 30 groups at the moment. Reds fans were robbed of Opening Day on Opening Day, the lockout having altered the schedule to where it had to be celebrated a day late and buck short well after the period had in fact began. On that ultimate day, the Cleveland Guardians shattered them to bits simply hours after group COO Phil Castellini informed followers much and wide simply exactly how a lot he wanted them to imitate loyal meat. Tommy Pham and Nick Senzel banged into each other in the outfield and both right away strike the shelves, with Senzel now there for a longer job many thanks to an unrevealed illness as we still being in the heart of a worldwide pandemic. Jonathan India, the future of this blaze, pulled a hammy at the dawn of the west coast trip and has yet to be seen since. Mike Minor, meanwhile, has been shut down from his restart from being closed down, his sticking around shoulder concerns making us all wonder simply what his whole brief Reds profession will ever before become. Remember Donovan Solano? Me either. It looked like the Reds were attempting to allow Tyler Mahle extend a big in his Sunday outing versus the Dodgers, letting him pitch via a mid-inning jam the method they likely would not have actually done a week back when he was still attempting to increase after the shortened Spring Training. It didn't work, he obtained shelled, and the Reds limped out of Dodger Arena with the 8th loss on that particular previously provided ledger Guardians Shorts. The team's cumulative 51 wRC+ is the most awful in the video game. Their. 250 wOBA is worst, too, as is their. 254 on-base percent. Their 24. 5% hard-hit price ranks last, in instance analysis that after hiding it can possibly stun you at this point. Statcast supports that FanGraphs assessment, as they note the 85. 2 mph ordinary departure speed likewise ranks last amongst baseball's franchises. It's been fairly the adventure for these Reds up until now also if, as C. Trent Rosecrans of The Athletic relayed, it's 'not even very early yet' according to manager David Bell. Trent's review, which you should review, even pours a little bit of salt right into this summation as it keeps in mind that Nick Castellanos - who would probably boost those offending stats just a tad - had genuine interest in returning to the Reds this offseason while the club rather picked to spontaneously combust. Believe it or otherwise, though, there are factors for some optimism!What we've seen from Hunter Greene in his 2 beginnings has actually been absolutely nothing short of drool-inducing. That he's handled to do that versus the 2021 World Collection champs and the 2020 World Collection champs is worthy of some certain notification, as that aspect also assists include in the light positive outlook right here - the groups who the Reds have actually dealt with in their 8 road games up until now have been absolutely nothing brief of incredible, which will not proceed. They have actually additionally obtained Luis Castillo on the heal, and he's expected to rejoin the rotation by the end of the month. In concept, there will certainly be a week soon in which he, Greene, Mahle, and Nick Lodolo will certainly take the pile on consecutive days, and it's hard not to see the assurance in that (also if just how it cleans beyond just 2022 does not show up to accumulate given the diminishing team control of half of that unit). India and Senzel need to be back by after that, as well as with the mysterious Donovan Solano, and by then I can just assume Joey Votto will certainly have trembled his annual early-season funk. Still, it's yet one more period in which the Reds appear to be hidden before we also had a chance to blink, and that's discouraging on a planetary degree. The Major League Baseball period is so long, uses up such a massive chunk of each and every fiscal year, and the appeal of such a lengthy season is that it allows one to appreciate the several steps along the means. To be out of the race, an afterthought so extremely very early once more puts a haze en route all of us see the following five months of action, and anything type of a miraculous turnaround endangers to place us via that ringer yet again. That's the outcome that was softly written on the wall last winter season when the Reds reduced expenses in extreme fashion prior to the lockout. That end result obtained spray-painted in highlighter when the lockout finished and the Reds let go the rest of their previous core. Those relocations decreased expect a 2022 run severely, undoubtedly, however did still allow for the kind of perennial baseball positive outlook for a miracle to still be installed in there somewhere. Another week like the last one, though, and also that may vaporize quickly around these Reds. And believe me, claiming that on April 18th is a really, extremely tough tablet to swallow.