[WarningTrakPower]

We finished the season with a respectful record of 74-88.
We had a strong August (18-10) and a poor September (10-17).



The 2022 World Series Champions are ...



Let's take a look at the end of season individual pitching stats.



Luis Castillo had a terrific season putting up 3.5 WAR in only 22 starts. He is signed for $11m for next year.

Nick Lodolo was having a great season, but his last 11 starts were pretty rough. We look forward to seeing him build on this year next season.

Hunter Greene had a good second half to bring his numbers back to more respectful. Take a look at his month by month pitching splits.
The BB/9 is still worrisome and his FIP was still above 5.



Tyler Mahle was very good in July & August, but pretty poor in September. Although he is signed for next year, he may be used as trade bait.

Sonny Gray had a terrible July (ERA almost 9) followed by an outstanding August (ERA of 1.47) and an average September.
He has a team option for next year at $12.7m and just turned 33.
This will be a tough decision to make on him.

Lucas Sims was hit hard all season (ended with BABIP against of .385). We removed him from the closer role on August 1, but he struggled in September (battling a DTD injury).
We decided to extend him at $1.9m for next season.

Tony Santillan was having a very strong season when we made him the closer on August 1.
He really struggled after that unfortunately. In 29.2 innings he allowed 24 earned runs. He gave up 7 homers in 14 innings in August.
Here are his pitching splits by month.



Joel Kuhnel is one of the high velo (97-99 Mph) with low K/9 (career 7.1) guys.
Personally, I think this guys are pure gold in the bullpen. They always seems to do really good.

Now let's take a look at the batters.



Jonathan India had an excellent season, leading our team in WAR even though he had less than 400 PAs.

Nick Senzel had a decent season in RF. I am glad we signed him to an extension for next year, but we feel like he might be a good trade candidate.

Joey Votto is slowing down a bit and is signed for $25m for next year.

Jesse Winker had another strong season for us. His arbitration estimate is still only $8.5m, so we may continue to hold on to him for the 2023 season.

Eugenio Suarez had a really really poor season. We have to somehow find a way to get out of the remaining 2 years and $22m owed to him.
He was extremly unlucky at the plate with a BABIP of only .215 somehow.
The K% of 36.7 is very alarming also.

Why don't we check in on a few of our potential upcoming pitching prospects?



Of these four guys, Franco Aleman is probably the only "non trade bait" player. He is probably a future reliever also, but will stick around in AAA rotation for 2023.

On the brighter side of things, here are a few of our potential upcoming hitting prospects.



Michael Siani will almost certainly be our starting CF next year.
Austin Hendrick (12th overall in 2020) worked his way up from low A to AA last year.
He will start at AA again and hopefully move up to AAA early in the 2023 season.
Rece Hinds struggled a fair bit in AA after a mid season promotion. He may be future trade bait with his batting profile.
Reed Trimble had a monster season in low A (.355/.394/.543) which caught our attention to put him on our shortlist.
He "looks" almost fully developed, so he will most certainly slow him down as he progress through the next few levels in the minors.

That sums up our 2022 season. Check back next time where we recap the offseason before the 2023 season!