I'm I'm Hey, everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinky from Yahoo and from Rotowires podcast.

A lot of baseball going on.

Fred, how are you doing?

I'm great.

How are you?

I'm doing all right.

A little aggravated at the Reds bullpen, which means I'm more aggravated at the

Reds management for how they built the bullpen and let everybody go that was good.

Or at least anybody that made any sort of money whatsoever, promising to rebuild or reallocate that money and then just pocketing it. So I'm a little grumpy about that. It's only in middle of June. It's a very winnable division, but the bullpen is just cost them continuously. They got by finally, though, today only because of the twins bullpen was just as bad. Yeah, I was going to say, you can't get too grumpy after a win. You know, you have to, you know, you're throwing this in the face of Twins fans. But if T.J. Anton didn't come off the I.L. today, would the Reds have won the game? Well, he gave up a big homer. I don't know, man.

Actually, he was true.

But then he did get a couple outs. I don't know. Maybe they, I don't know. But yeah, I understand your frustration as a Reds fan. That being said, bullpens are so up and down from one year to the next. And the Reds, they're 500. They can maybe, what if, would you turn around as a Reds fan if they picked up a couple

relievers in the next month and, you know what I mean?

And, uh, and rebuilt this bullpen a little bit.

I'm not saying a glacial level relievers, but what if they picked up a couple guys who were

throwing okay this year?

I'll be happy.

I don't even think they're going to do that.

I don't think they are either. And I think some of this is, I think there's going to be a lot of teams on the margins like the Reds that aren't going to invest at the trade deadline because they've got the big CBA coming up at the here. And Joe G. Chimes in right away and I agree with them on this. Sims is being overused and not being used correctly. Yeah, this is the kind of thing we've been beating on here a little bit. Yeah, I mean, they're using him a lot and, you know, bringing him sometimes in the 6, sometimes in the 8th, sometimes in the 9th. I don't mind the Ace Reliever concept as long as it's being, you know, there's some rhyme or reason to it. I don't think their rhyme or reason is there. I think David Bell is just like putting out fires left and right. I don't think he's kind of, I don't think he's really like has a plan. I think he just goes to, oh, you got to do this. Oh, got to do that that let's do a double switch you know i think he

does that a lot um i think sims is actually a good reliever still i think there's hope for me or

garrett although man he just every time i start to count him beats me down but i think i trust

sims and anton a little bit and really nobody else sean do a little unfortunate i think he's done

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