{"id":501402,"date":"2026-02-26T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501402\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:07:07","slug":"cincinnati-reds-leadership-shift-clouded-by-missteps-in-ownership-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501402\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds\u2019 leadership shift clouded by missteps in ownership announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

What was expected to be a milestone moment for the Reds — the announcement of President & CEO Phil Castellini succeeding his father, Bob, as the team\u2019s controlling owner<\/a> — instead became overshadowed when the business side \u201cbotched the announcement,\u201d according to Williams & Wittenmyer of the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. Wittenmyer wrote the Reds \u201cscrewed up so bad with that weird leaked report\u201d the first week of spring training that Reds officials \u201cwere bombarded with questions about Bob\u2019s health.\u201d Williams noted once team officials were available to the media, \u201cnone of them were Phil or anyone else from the business side.\u201d Wittenmyer noted Reds\u2019 ownership, for the \u201cfirst time in years,\u201d had a chance for a \u201cvictory lap\u201d after extending payroll to sign 3B Eugenio Suarez. Williams wrote this ownership \u201cused to be so accessible and accountable\u201d and the team was \u201calways a model for good public relations, on both sides of the operation.\u201d Williams: \u201cBut ever since Phil stuck his foot in his mouth<\/a>, that side of the operation hasn\u2019t been able to get it out.\u201d Wittenmyer: \u201cAnd the worst part is, they seem to be hiding from it. I don\u2019t know if the people who work for Phil are afraid of bringing common-sense advice to him or whether he just can\u2019t handle the heat. But there\u2019s a huge gap in common sense going on over there. And it\u2019s not helping sell some of the great things this club has to offer right now on the field\u201d (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 2\/25<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What was expected to be a milestone moment for the Reds — the announcement of President & CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3307,49,48,139,462,82],"class_list":["post-501402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-leadership","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}