The Cincinnati Reds fired manager David Bell before the end of the season on Sunday. Bell had been the manager since before the start of the 2019 season.
The Cincinnati Reds are about to play their last few games of the 2024 season but will be doing so without David Bell in the dugout. The Reds fired Bell on Sunday night after the game lost 2-0 to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The loss dropped the Reds to 76-81 on the season.
Cincinnati named bench coach Freddie Benavides the interim manager for the final five games of the season. 'David provided the kind of steadiness that we needed in our clubhouse over the last few seasons. We felt a change was needed to move the Major League team forward. We have not achieved the success we expected, and we need to begin focusing on 2025,' Reds president of baseball operations Nick Krall said in a news release.
Bell never led Cincinnati to a better standing than third in the National League Central division. The Reds made the playoffs in the 2020 coronavirus-impacted season but it’s their only playoff appearance since 2013. Bell is 409-456 as a manager. Cincinnati has a lot of potential and the organization clearly sees that a new voice might help the team get over the hump. Hunter Greene, Elly De La Cruz and Andrew Abbott are among the young players leading the charge into the future.
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