Terry Francona<\/a>\u2019s management philosophy focuses more on run prevention. He prefers clean pitching over heavy hitting. The Reds have hit 21 HRs this season. That is 8 more than the bottom scrapers and 16 fewer than the table toppers in the major league.<\/p>\nThat is the exact reason they successfully swept the last series despite offensive inconsistency. And Francona addressed the issue not through panic but awareness. It\u2019s not about the numbers, but how he handles the team.<\/p>\n
Reds stick to the process as Terry Francona backs the team<\/p>\n
The best part about the manager\u2019s honest confession is that it didn\u2019t sound like an alarm. Instead, he backed the team\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe good side of it is they haven\u2019t just said, \u2018Well, we\u2019ll win when we get hot.\u2019 They keep competing, they keep grinding, they fight through frustration,\u201d Francona said.<\/p>\n
He has faith in their track records, and he knows they will get better. This is the exact mindset of the manager who pushes the players. And they have already become the first NL team to register a 10-0 record in games decided by two runs or fewer.<\/p>\n
Francona knows that the weather will eventually change. And the hitters won\u2019t face the same roadblocks they struggled with in the early season. It\u2019s only a matter of time until they reach their own levels.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are going to hit better, and I think then winning will be easier, because right now, it\u2019s been hard,\u201d the 66-year-old said.<\/p>\n
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His whole confidence is rooted in the overall process, and not in the results. The way he acknowledges the flaws without triggering panic in the clubhouse reinforces the players.<\/p>\n
And the fans wholeheartedly agree with Terry Francona, \u201cThey\u2019ll get to their level, and we\u2019ll enjoy watching that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sure, sitting atop the National League Central looks impressive for the Cincinnati Reds, but there are deeper concerns,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,141,48,535,50,4259,39,822,4,536,1175,7965],"class_list":{"0":"post-680194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-reds","13":"tag-cincinnatireds","14":"tag-dodgers","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-reds","18":"tag-terry-francona","19":"tag-the-astros"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116441422574760860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}