{"id":195014,"date":"2025-09-02T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195014\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:38:07","slug":"reds-loyalty-to-de-la-cruz-at-shortstop-is-blind-and-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195014\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds loyalty to De La Cruz at shortstop is blind and costly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>De La Cruz now leads Major League Baseball with 22 errors; second place has 15.<\/p>\n<p>Letters to the editor<br \/>\n\u00a0|\u00a0 Cincinnati Enquirer<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon now.\u00a0 Elly De La Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2025\/08\/29\/reds-lose-again-this-time-in-10-innings-st-louis-cardinals-nl-wild-card-playoffs-new-york-mets\/85897042007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost another game Aug. 29<\/a>, committing two key errors that cost the Reds a win. He now leads Major League Baseball with 22 errors; second place has 15.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it time the Reds put De La Cruz in center field, where he belongs? He is fundamentally flawed at shortstop, and after two-plus years, the Reds coaching\u00a0staff has not been able to correct him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope they do what has to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Steve King, Pierce Township<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De La Cruz now leads Major League Baseball with 22 errors; second place has 15. Letters to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10595,5048,8541,11332,10615,5821,10614,6367,2961,1266,1571,5382,451,50,5622,450,457,10596,62,1458,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-195014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-cincinnati","9":"tag-cincinnati-reds","10":"tag-columnists","11":"tag-columnists-opinions","12":"tag-cruz","13":"tag-de","14":"tag-elly","15":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-national","19":"tag-national-sports","20":"tag-negative","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-opinions","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-negative","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-news","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115136633482290356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}