After Cincinnati Reds right fielder Nick Castellanos hit a walk-off homer in a win on Saturday over the Washington Nationals, he mentioned Joe Morgan and Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine. He mentioned. Eric Davis and Barry Larkin and the Nasty Boys.
At the start of 2020, when Castellanos signed with the Reds because he saw the best opportunity to play for a competitive team, he said he didn’t know about the great Reds teams of the 1970s or the wire-to-wire team two decades later.
Then, when he kept seeing the highlights on the scoreboard and heard from fans about what those players meant to them, Castellanos realized that these weren’t just old-timers from his new organization.