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2006 Cincinnati Reds
Predictions
Take your baseball betting up to the next level
with our 2006 Cincinnati Reds predictions. The Cincinnati Reds
showed glimpses of becoming a good team in 2005. They brought big bats
to the plate but they suffered from lack of quality pitching all season.
In other words, they were the perfect overs team. The average total at
home was just over 11 runs per game and the average on the road was
barely under 10 at 9.9 runs per game. Consider playing overs on the Reds
at home in 2006.
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These Reds didn’t get along with the road at all as they were just 31-50
last season. It is yet to be determined on exactly how this season will
play out as the Reds dealt away 2-time All-star Sean Casey who has hit
over .300 in 5 of his last 7 seasons and has accrued 1125 hits in 1081
games in his career. They gained left handed starter Dave Williams from
the Pirates. It hardly looks like a fair trade as Williams is just 17-26
in his career and was just a 10-game winner a season ago. Obviously,
Cincinnati is building for the future and it doesn’t look like the
future will be any time soon.
Aaron Harang leads this weak starting staff and he has been shaky at
best. The team did trade for Dave Williams and Bronson Arroyo, and I do
expect Arroyo to do a lot better in this division than he did in the
toughest hitting division in baseball. The Reds haven’t gotten a solid
feel for how their bullpen will shake out, and we are looking most
likely at a bullpen by committee.
With Casey off to Pittsburgh, Adam Dunn, a converted left fielder, will
likely return to first base. I expect shortstop sensation Felipe Lopez
to pick up some of the slack for Casey by building off of last year’s
All-star season in which he led all NL shortstops in homers and RBI’s.
Lopez hit .291 last season , but I expect him to hit over .300 this
year. Even without Casey the Reds should once again be powerful
offensive lineup, but they didn’t do enough with their pitching
situation to contend in the NL Central. Maybe one of the most powerful
teams in the bigs, with Dunn being good for 40, and Griffey good for
over 35 home runs. It’s going to be tough to tell who will make a move
to make up for the losses of Casey and Willy Mo Pena, but if Griffey can
stay healthy then this lineup will be difficult to face.
The Reds are a tough team to get a solid feel for betting wise and
whenever we feel like putting some of our action on this team it brings
back memories of Pete Rose and his shady days of managing this ball
club. Let’s hope that everyone is more successful this season in
placing wagers on the Reds than this former great player was.
This article was written by Jimmy Boyd Pick up his
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