Yesterday, the Reds relieved both manager Bryan Price and pitching coach Mack Jenkins of their respective jobs from the Cincinnati Reds. It was a somewhat surprising move, if inevitable for a team that’s started out 3-15 to begin the 2018 campaign.
It’s also a move that isn’t likely to accomplish a whole hell-of-a-lot of anything, unless you’re one of the nineteen-hundred-thousand Facebook commenters that tends to believe everything bad that happened was Bryan Price’s fault.
Some of it was, to be sure. A lot of it wasn’t, though. Regardless, when the team sputters and sputters this badly, someone is bound to lay on the grenade (or, maybe better put, be thrown on top of it).