Welcome to another edition of the Reds Beat Blog. We asked if history could repeat itself:
As we close in on the July 31 Major League Baseball trade deadline, two Reds that will take a spin or two on the old rumor mill are Scooter Gennett and Raisel Iglesias.
Would the Reds trade an All-Star? Would the Reds trade their closer?
In 1998, they did both in one trade. They sent Jeff Shaw to the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 4 – after he had been named as an All-Star.
Shaw, who had signed a team-friendly deal and lived up the road in the Washington Court House, was more than little unhappy with then-GM Jim Bowden for making the deal.