One of the most common themes the Reds’ broadcasters discuss on a daily basis is the team’s “chronic inability” to hit with runners in scoring position. From listening to the games you probably know by now that the Reds are dead last in the major leagues in AVG w/ RISP. The voices of the Reds on both TV and radio have been harping about batting average with runners in scoring position for several years now. It is a common refrain and a frequent topic of conversation and has been for a long time. Let’s nail some facts to the wall and find out just how concerned we should be about this problem…
We can see in the chart that the Reds are in fact the worst team in baseball in terms of AVG w/RISP this year with a .