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Kiss 'Em Goodbye: Cincinnati Reds

By Buster Olney, Baseball Prospectus and Insider staff
ESPN Insider

Friday, October 2, 2009

Insider's series on MLB teams that are out of the playoff race continues with the Cincinnati Reds, an organization that, like Warren Beatty, wishes it was still 1975. To see an archive of Kiss 'Em Goodbye, please go here. Baseball Prospectus' preseason PECOTA projection: 79-83, fourth place Current record: 76-83, fourth place Dusty Baker sure wouldn't mind having Barry Bonds at the No. 4 slot in this lineup. To read Buster Olney's take on what went wrong for the Reds and what's next, plus ...

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