Reds fire David Bell with 5 games left in regular season

The Cincinnati Reds are astir to play their past fewer games of the 2024 play but volition beryllium doing truthful without David Bell successful the dugout.

The Reds fired Bell connected Sunday nighttime aft the crippled mislaid 2-0 to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The nonaccomplishment dropped the Reds to 76-81 connected the season.

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Jul 27, 2024; St. Petersburg, Florida, USA; Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell (25) looks connected against the Tampa Bay Rays during the ninth inning astatine Tropicana Field.  (Matt Pendleton-USA TODAY Sports)

Cincinnati named seat manager Freddie Benavides the interim manager for the last 5 games of the season.

"David provided the benignant of steadiness that we needed successful our clubhouse implicit the past fewer seasons. We felt a alteration was needed to determination the Major League squad forward. We person not achieved the occurrence we expected, and we request to statesman focusing connected 2025," Reds president of shot operations Nick Krall said successful a quality release.

The Reds hired Bell earlier the commencement of the 2019 play arsenic helium replaced Bryan Price and Jim Riggleman. Price was fired during the 2018 play and Riggleman took implicit for the remainder of that year.

Jul 22, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell (25) successful the dugout against the Atlanta Braves successful the ninth inning astatine Truist Park. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports)

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Bell ne'er led Cincinnati to a amended lasting than 3rd successful the National League Central division. The Reds made the playoffs successful the 2020 coronavirus-impacted play but it’s their lone playoff quality since 2013.

Bell is 409-456 arsenic a manager.

Cincinnati has a batch of imaginable and the enactment intelligibly sees that a caller dependable mightiness assistance the squad get implicit the hump. Hunter Greene, Elly De La Cruz and Andrew Abbott are among the young players starring the complaint into the future.

Sep 22, 2024; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell (25) reacts aft a play successful the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates astatine Great American Ball Park. (Katie Stratman-Imagn Images)

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The Reds’ offseason volition conscionable commencement a small earlier than each different team.

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