OOTP Baseball 27 · Cincinnati Reds · NL West · Historical 1975 Replay
The slide has turned into a skid. The Reds have lost eight straight — 0–4 in June so far — and dropped to third, 2.5 games behind Houston and a half game behind the Dodgers. A month that started with the Astros cracking has ended with the Machine stalling instead. The real 1975 club turned its season around in late May and June and never looked back; this one is still waiting for its turn.
Buried in the system right now, behind a historically stacked roster: Mario Soto (18, A-ball, 80 POT — the single best long-term arm anywhere in the org), plus Joaquín Andujar, Doug Corbett, Joel Youngblood, Steve Henderson, and Ray Knight — every one of them went on to a real big-league career elsewhere or later. Worth tracking for the moment the reserve clause stops protecting this depth chart the way it does today.