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Reds Lose Again

So, you sweep the NL's worst team, and then you get the Cubs, and they win the first two. That's a realistic look at the state of play right now. Aramis Ramirez ate us alive last night. They are, simply put, a better team--despite that Prior didn't completely shut us down.

The Enquirer is writing this morning about 3b.

The assumption is that the Reds are going to trade Randa, but the according to the paper, the Reds are asking too much for their players--something which is probably not uncommon for a bad team looking for a fire sale as its only hope of rebuilding. Edwin Encarnacion was poor in his first stint up, but has gone back to Louisville and is hitting everything in sight.

I think the bottom line is this: EE has done all he can do in Louisville. He's hit the top of the arc there. That doesn't mean he will be a great big league player right away, but he's done all he can do in that setting. So, I think you have to trade Randa for whatever you can get, and bring EE up by the end of the month. He needs regular at bats to see if he can come around.

Let's keep in mind that if he does, he only makes the young nucleus of this team even better---in the starting 8.