Young Teams Can Win

LetsTalkReds.com's Guest Submitter Rusty Harris

Florida Marlins

Catcher - Mike Rebelo - 28 years old
1st Base - Mike Jacobs - 27 years old
2nd Base - Dan Uggla - 28 years old
Shortstop - Hanley Ramirez - 24 years old
3rd Base - Jorge Cantu - 26 years old
Left Field - Josh Willingham - 29 years old
Center Field - Alfredo Amezaga - 30 years old
Righ Field - Jeremy Hermida - 24 years old

Cincy Reds

Catcher - Paul Bako - 35 years old
1st Base - Joey Votto - 24 years old
2nd Base - Brandon Phillips - 26 years old
Shortstop - Jeff Keppinger - 28 years old
3rd Base - Edwin Encarnacion - 25 years old
Left Field - Adam Dunn - 28 years old
Center Field - Corey Patterson - 28 years old
Right Field - Ken Griffey - 38 years old


Besides Griffey and Bako both the Marlins and Reds are pretty young
teams but there are differences in them

1. Florida Marlins 23 - 14
Cincy Reds 15 - 23

2. Florida Payroll 22 million dollar payroll
Cincy Reds 74 million dollar payroll


My point here is that a young team can win. You dont need the high
paid superstars ( Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey ) to compete. The way the
Florida Marlins play is fun to watch they are a young team that goes
out there and gives it everything they have for 9 innings while on the
other hand sometimes while watching the Reds I dont see that. I love
Ken Griffey he has always been my favorite player but its become time
for the Reds organization to start building teams from within their
own organization and stop paying guys that have no right making the
money there are ( or were ) with the Reds. The Reds have one of the
best farm systems in the Majors and this team is right around the
corner from competing for years to come they just need to stop paying
guys like griffey , dunn , stanton , and others the kind of money they
are making and give the young guys a shot first like the Marlins have
done.