- 2008 Cincinnati Reds season
MLB yearly infobox
name = Cincinnati Reds
season = 2008
misc =
logo =
current league = National League
y1 = 1890
division = Central Division
y2 = 1994
Uniform logo =
ballpark =Great American Ball Park
y4 = 2003
city = Cincinnati,Ohio
y5 = 1876
owners =Robert Castellini
managers =Dusty Baker
gm =Walt Jocketty
television = FSN Ohio
radio =WLW (700 AM)
espntn = cin
brtn = CIN|The
Cincinnati Reds ' 2008 season is their 127th in total and their sixth in their present home park,Great American Ball Park . The Reds play in the National League's central division; their divisional foes are theChicago Cubs ,St. Louis Cardinals ,Milwaukee Brewers ,Houston Astros , andPittsburgh Pirates . The Cubs are the defending champions. The Reds have not made the playoffs since the 1995 season. [cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/1995.shtml|title=1995 Cincinnati Reds Statistics and Roster|publisher=Baseball-Reference.com|language=English|accessdate=2008-04-09]The 2008 season is manager Dusty Baker's first with the Reds; the 19-year major league veteran
outfield er from 1968 season to 1986 season with theAtlanta Braves ,Los Angeles Dodgers ,San Francisco Giants , andOakland Athletics , previously managed theSan Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2002 and theChicago Cubs from 2003 to 2006. He took the entire 2007 off. Baker replacedPete Mackanin , who was named the interim manager onJuly 1 , 2007, afterJerry Narron , coincidentally hired as an interim manager himself, in 2005 season was fired.Baker is the club's first-ever
African American manager. [cite web|url=http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071014&content_id=2264933&fext=.jsp&c_id=cin&vkey=news_cin|title=News: Reds hire Baker as manager|last=Sheldon|first=Mark|date=2007-10-14|publisher=The Official Site of The Cincinnati Reds|language=English|accessdate=2008-04-09]The season is being dedicated to a number of people who died prior to the beginning of the season. Primarily, former Reds left-handed
pitcher and longtime announcerJoe Nuxhall , affectionately known to fans as "The Ol' Lefthander", who died onNovember 15 ,2007 ofcancer . A patch that says "NUXY" is being worn on Reds uniforms.Other Reds figures who passed were
Sheldon "Chief" Bender , a former major league pitcher who developed the Reds' minor league farm system in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Bender died onFebruary 27 ,2008 . He worked with general managerBob Howsam , who had died eight days earlier, to develop the Reds into 1970s powerhouse team nicknamed "The Big Red Machine ".Just 21 games into the 2008 season, the Reds fired 3rd year
General Manager Wayne Krivsky and replaced him with formerSt. Louis Cardinals General ManagerWalt Jocketty . The Reds had at 9-12 record, tied for 4th in the NL Central standings at the time of the firing. It was the team's worst start since the 2003 season.The Reds again stirred up controversy in Cincinnati in late July and early August by first trading right fielderKen Griffey Jr. , who a month earlier had hit his 600th home run, to theChicago White Sox at the trade deadline. On their next off day they sent popular left fielderAdam Dunn to theArizona Diamondbacks for two minor leaguers and pitcherMicah Owings . These two moves left gaping holes in the Reds' outfield that they have since struggled to fill.Regular season
eason standings
Record vs. opponents
2008 Game Log
The following is the Reds' 2008 season game log. [cite web |url=http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=cin |title=The Official Site of The Cincinnati Reds: Homepage |accessdate=2008-04-04] [cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/2008_sched.shtml|title=2008 Cincinnati Reds Schedule, Box Scores and Splits|publisher=Baseball-Reference.com|language=English|accessdate=2008-04-09]
2008 Cincinnati Reds season
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Player stats
Batting
"Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In; SB = Stolen Bases; AVG = Batting Average"
References
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/2008.shtml 2008 Cincinnati Reds season at Baseball Reference]
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