The Reds introduced that they’ve parted methods with supervisor David Bell. Bench coach Freddie Benavides will act because the membership’s interim supervisor for the rest of the season.
In a press release launched to the media, president of baseball operations Nick Krall mentioned that “David offered the form of steadiness that we would have liked in our clubhouse over the previous couple of seasons. We felt a change was wanted to maneuver the Main League group ahead. We’ve got not achieved the success we anticipated, and we have to start specializing in 2025.”
Bell’s tenure ends simply wanting six full seasons as Cincinnati’s supervisor, and as we speak’s loss to the Pirates drops his document to 409-456. Three of Bell’s six seasons noticed the Reds end with a successful document — their 31-29 document within the shortened 2020 season that led to a playoff berth, an 83-win marketing campaign in 2021, and the 82-win season in 2023. That latter season appeared to trace at greater issues forward for the Reds, given how the group seemingly had an overload of younger position-player expertise all breaking out on the identical time. The group even awarded Bell for his position within the Reds’ progress, as Bell was signed to a brand new contract extension in July 2023 that lined the 2024-26 seasons.
Nevertheless, it maybe shouldn’t be ignored that Bell was nonetheless in a lame-duck contractual scenario inside two months of the expiration of his earlier deal. Which may’ve been the primary trace that the Reds’ possession and entrance workplace was solely keen to offer Bell a lot leeway in persevering with because the membership’s skipper, and the disappointing nature of the 2024 season sealed Bell’s destiny.
Extra to come back….
