Krivsky Fired
Three highly placed Reds sources have confirmed that the club has fired GM Wayne Krivsky. Walt Jocketty, current special assistant to owner Bob Castellini and former GM for the St. Louis Cardinals, will be announced as Krivsky's replacement at a news conference later today.
posted by Paul Daugherty at 10:01 AM
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Post a Comment*Bout time. Hallaleujah.
Bob Castellini has spent big and wants a winner. I love his approach. Krivsky bungled a lot of things. Especially Bob's money.
He seemed like a decent man in over his head. I wish him well...just away from the Reds.
Now if we could just get the Bengals to show the same kind of swift decisiveness...
Bye bye Wayne.
A GREAT DAY FOR CINCINNATI BASEBALL!
I haven't been so happy about the Reds since the day they fired Dick Wagner. I am off to celebrate!
St CSA
wow.... Krivsky erred in staying with DUNN (and the Dunn/Griffey leadership tandem) too long. And the trade of hamilton the team's most complete player didn't help any either.......-prose14
Dear Mike Brown, please call Bob Castellini and ask him "how do I make a decision?"
Mr Castellini seems capable of doing that while Mr. Brown is unable to react to any situation with any degree of decisiveness.
John in Hebron.
A well deserved firing. That dude set a lot of money on fire. I could list all the reasons why he deserved it, but lets just say "thanks" to Mr. Castellini and move on.
I actually thought Krivsky did a good job. I'm not sure what he did that was so bad except make good trades (for the most part), stock-pile a bunch of talent within our farm system for the first time I can remember, make good rule 5 acquisitions (Burton, Hamilton), & do the best he could to turn things around with our moderate payroll. Some of the $ spent was a little careless, but I think we may be looking back thinking we made a mistake when we win with Krivsky's guys...
I'd trade Hamilton for Volquez every day, and twice on Sunday. Krivskys downfall has been in the bad contract signing department, and not trading Dunn last summer. Wayne has made Castellini eat untold millions in bad contracts. That is what did him in. See Stanton/Cormier/Freel/Patterson/Castro and so on.
I don't understand all the hatred for Wayne. We have some good players because of him. He just needed next year for it all to come together.
Maybe Jocketty can get rid of some excess baggage that krivsky stuck the reds with...release fogg...release patterson...get some young players up like bruce and bailey...and get rid of arroyo...he had a good half year for the reds!
Hard to hold the Hamilton trade against him at this point, in my opinion. Voltron's proving to be a stud, and good pitching beats good hitting any day. I liked Hamilton and don't doubt his talent, but I'll settle for an outfield of Bruce/Hopper/anyone else if it means our rotation is Harang/Cueto/Voltron.
Where ya off to, Cheviot? I'll even buy the first round, lessee, hows bout some Keystone, in honor of Doc's scoop-de-doop. After that, some primo stuff, then some 'get moody with Hudy' in honor of the greatest ball park of all time, Crosley Field.
You had to know Jocketty wasn't here to fill out paperwork or do photo ops. I'm with ya, time to celebrate. Krivsky will land on his feet, he's a solid background player type, just not good GM material.
Krivsky deserves his fate but...I think Castellini is the boss.Right?I mean,doesn't someone have to sign off on the deals Wayne made?And wasn't the wonderboy Jocketty on board already when some of the latest gaffes were executed?
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