{"id":1432,"date":"2026-09-29T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:22:04","slug":"reds-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/reds-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds In Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a Reds fan like we are, 2026 has been one of those seasons where you\u2019ve probably spent a lot of time asking yourself, \u201cWhat exactly are we watching here?\u201d \u00a0Maybe you even used stronger language than that\u2026<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the season we hoped for. There have been nights at Great American Ball Park when you probably left thinking about what could have been, and there\u2019s no getting around the fact that the Reds won\u2019t be playing October baseball this year. \u00a0It is a huge miss given this team\u2019s talent.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean there wasn\u2019t something to watch. \u00a0Sal Stewart put together a rookie season that has him right in the middle of the Rookie of the Year conversation. Ely De La Cruz joined the Reds\u2019 30\/30 club, something only three players in franchise history have done. And Chase Burns won 15 games in his second big league season without the run support 15 game winners usually get.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a pretty good group to build around. \u00a0And maybe that\u2019s what I like about baseball. You don’t get to – and shouldn’t<\/strong> – judge everything by one game, or even one season. \u00a0A hitter can go 0-for-4 on Tuesday and hit a walk-off home run on Friday. A pitcher can get utterly walloped one night and come back at the next start\u00a0looking completely different. \u00a0Investing works the same way.<\/p>\n

There are going to be good months and bad months. Some investments will surprise you in a good way. Others will make you wonder why you ever bought them in the first place. \u00a0The important thing is knowing whether you’re looking at one bad game or a bigger problem. \u00a0That’s where having a plan matters. You don’t abandon the entire lineup because one player has a bad week. You look at what is working, what isn’t, and whether a change actually makes sense. \u00a0Good GM\u2019s do it – you should too.<\/p>\n

The Reds may not have given Cincinnati the season we wanted in 2026. \u00a0But if you\u2019re sitting at home watching Stewart, De La Cruz and Burns, assuming the potential lock out doesn\u2019t screw things up there\u2019s a pretty good reason to believe the next season will look different. \u00a0And just like investing, sometimes the best thing you can do is pay attention to what\u2019s working, learn, and keep building.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re a Reds fan like we are, 2026 has been one of those seasons where you\u2019ve probably spent a lot of time asking yourself, \u201cWhat exactly are we watching here?\u201d \u00a0Maybe you even used stronger language than that\u2026 It wasn\u2019t the season we hoped for. There have been nights at Great American Ball Park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-preparedness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}