Depending on whom you ask, we’re either in the last few days of the Bryan Price era of Reds baseball, or just in the first few bumpy years of a long-term relationship. Price is at the helm of a losing team that’s riddled with injuries right now, as he has been for most of his managerial career. That has to be frustrating, and if you saw or heard his rant earlier this year, he hasn’t always dealt with that frustration in a particularly inspiring manner.
I was pretty high on Price when the Reds hired him. He was an outside the box choice, and after the long years of old-schoolism under Dusty Baker, it seemed like that was just what the Reds needed.