Baseball is a great product run by a man who seems to resent that fans like it. A decade into Rob Manfred's tenure, the sport is thriving in spite of him, not because of him.

The Brewers and Rays just handed the players' union the perfect argument against a salary cap. The team that loses the most when that argument wins? The one in Cincinnati.

Nobody is asking for a $300 million payroll. Here is the realistic price of turning the Reds into a real contender, and why ownership keeps refusing to pay it.

In 2006, when Bob Castellini led the group that purchased the Cincinnati Reds, he issued a letter to the [...]