{"id":128056,"date":"2025-09-02T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128056\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:38:06","slug":"reds-loyalty-to-de-la-cruz-at-shortstop-is-blind-and-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128056\/","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":2,"featured_media":128057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[15056,2319,1653,57445,81476,35457,81475,7952,2957,363,6377,8456,34645,3,1201,13470,34647,1712,99,2415],"class_list":["post-128056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-columnists","tag-columnists-opinions","tag-cruz","tag-de","tag-elly","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-la","tag-mlb","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-opinions","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-reds","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}