The Skinny Podcast: Rhett Lowder's MLB debut

all right let's switch gears to the Reds they are 1 and5 since we last talked they're 63 and 70 overall fourth place in the NL Central 13 1 half games back of the first place Brewers they're now 10 games out of the last wild card spot and that'll be the last time I go through all that this year thank done with that portion of the program um the reds are going to promote pitching Prospect Rhett louder and give him the start on Friday night against the Brewers louder is the number two Prospect in the organization and is 22 years old he was drafted seventh overall last year after pitching for Wake Forest he made his first and only start in Triple A last Thursday and tossed six scoreless Innings there's been some hand ringing about the Reds making this decision to bring Rett louder up on Friday to make his debut already skinny where do you fall on that are you good with the Reds doing this I I am but but that was not the plan at all this was not the this wasn't Rett louder pitching his way to the point where hey let's bring it this was literally out of necessity they' run out of arms man you've seen the last two nights two Bullpen nights for goodness sakes they're out of dudes and so you could else out there right um not really I mean hon goodness not really um because their plan was to let him start in Louisville for the rest of this season that's the perfect way to end let him end on a high note and then go into spring training let him compete for a rotation spot maybe he starts in Louisville again and then he's maybe the first call up with an injury or or ineffectiveness happens to one of the the starting pitchers but this was not the plan um so deviating from the plan is a little Troublesome but at the same time like I said said they're just out of dudes yeah I I guess my question and I'm not sure how you feel about this I don't really think if if you're a guy who can't handle going up to the major leagues struggling going back down and then coming back up later and succeeding like you're you're just probably not a guy right like you're not a real dude that's going to succeed at the highest level of the sport and listen he struggled for a bit at Chattanooga this year and pulled himself up by his bootstraps so I don't think he's that type of guy whatsoever right so when people start worrying about like oh you're rushing him and he's going to be ruined by this like I don't necessarily buy into that but to your point that was when I also don't love a front office being like we have a calculated plan for one of our top prospects in place and just because your season has gone down the tubes no one cares about what's going on at the major league level and you can't even keep an actual major league pitching rotation together now you're throwing him into the fire like I don't love that either no the way this season is unraveled as as optimistic as I was at the start of the year and maybe too much so um not believing in too many guys having sophomore slumps and and not realizing the injury bug was going to get him the way it did and all that thing I mean here here's here's my problem right now moving forward yeah I love hunter green I love Nick Lolo when he's right I like Andrew rabbit quite a lot I I do I like all three of those guys and I do think they're the core of a rotation moving forward um I like TJ Friel a lot I I like some of these Parts a lot but when hunter green Nick Lolo and Andrew Abbot can get through a full season pitching a full season wake me up because I don't know if it's ever going to happen and then you look at at guys like fredel who um you know can't stay healthy and is actually playing a little bit nicked up right now at the moment and good God Matt mlan is he ever gonna I mean is that dude ever gonna be right again are we just gonna keep testing him for different maladies which is terrible because he was the one guy we were certain was going to be good he was going solid he'd be fine and now we're doing that game with him yeah and so I mean do you do you trust this front office to go out and add free agent pieces do they think that no it's just a matter of getting our guys healthy again um but you know hey even if next year uh again I love hunter hunter green became sa young material this year but again he can't finish the season and I know that's probably that's a that's a lot of major league pitching today but it's damn problematic and my other issue is now I know this season they' really almost never had everyone healthy but even when they've had at least most of these guys healthy it still hasn't been good good enough to compete for anything by the way right like it still hasn't been good enough with those guys all healthy now they're like maybe one day all of them will be healthy at the same time okay and then what like I've lost all faith and I've said this a few times so I won't go through it but I've have lost all faith and optimism for the future of this team because I just don't know that they're good enough even if they are healthy yeah and getting them all healthy at this point is a lost cause it feels like and and then adding the pieces to the couple of pieces that you need to add do you trust the front office to go do that well no and you know this is another great point that Mo Edgar made uh earlier this week is that their argument this offseason is going to be like well getting these injured guys back are almost like free agent acquisitions those are Acquisitions for the offseason we got all these guys healthy yep I'm with you I think that's what we're gonna hear yep I I have nothing else to add on the Reds at this point do you no I will say I went to the game on um what night was that Tuesday night I went to the game on Tuesday night after I wrote my cut down story and um uh it was it was sparsely attended obviously but I I've never seen a crowd that was that sparse boo so loud when Spencer steer was held up at third and then when that game ended all 4,000 attendant were really letting them have it they were letting them have it for sure all right uh sure you could stop watching now but let's be honest you want to see more so click some of those links or better yet go ahead and tap subscribe that way you'll catch more content from local 12