Terry Francona Likely Safe as Reds Manager for 2027

Uh, Terry Francona, uh, Red's manager. I guess he was elated to find out that, uh, it looks like nobody from the front office is being let go. So does that mean Francona likely safe at least for another year? Craig, what do you think? Yeah, I guess so. It sounds like it. It's a little surprising because yeah, you know, they just, I thought they underperformed this year in a very big way. And I really don't know exactly the reasons for that, but Joe, you know, sort of my thinking here too, is that if you are the owner of the Reds and Terry Francona, I don't know how much he's making, but let's assume it's a lot, 5 million, 6 million, I believe he's one of the highest paid managers. Joe, it is, it's probably easier to just keep him and have them come back next season and see if they can turn it around as opposed to having to go out and get and pay two managers next year. So, uh, I, I don't think Terry Francona gets fired. I think he ends up retiring whenever that is, but I've made it pretty clear that to me, they were one of the more disappointing teams in baseball and the way they were blown out in games and not scoring in games with all that talent that they had, and if, if they finished 81 and 81, you'd look at the Reds and say, okay, it wasn't the year that we thought they would have, but they're not finishing 81 and 81. They're lucky if they finish with 75 wins at this point, they've, they've just had a very disappointing year with a ton of talent. Oh, rookie of the year. Sal Stewart is the favorite of the rookie of the year. You got Ellie Della Cruz, right? Having a career year 284, uh, 27 home runs. I, they should have been much better, but a hundred green again, uh, back to Tommy John surgery. He won't be back until 2028. The burns was great. Burns is great. Yeah, they're, they've got some decisions. I think they still have to make it Greg and he off season. Uh, if I don't think it's a lack of talent, but yeah, that pitching staff still worries me here a little bit, especially if you're not going to have a hundred green. And then you're wondering, so who in the world is Cincinnati? Who could a team like Cincinnati go out and get, they're not going to get schoolable. They're not, right. I mean, they're so they better have some farm system and a lot of players that we just haven't heard about yet. Yeah. And they play LA tonight. They'll probably lose, but yeah, they, uh, the, the pitchers that are available, like the top free agents outside of school bowl, Casey Mize will be a free agent, so somebody will overpay for him. And then Nick Martinez from the Rays is a free agent, but the Reds already had him once. And they, they said they didn't want him anymore. He's been great. So, so yeah, maybe via trade that that could be, and look, November's going to come Joe. And I think we could get a little surprise in November. I think that with a potential lockout coming in December, I think for the since you and I have been doing this 20, 25 years, I think we could have a heavy free agency in November this year before the lockout, I think some signings could happen.