Urgency? The Cincinnati Reds are paying manager Terry Francona and ex-manager David Bell a combined $7.4 million. That's more ...

Close enough isn’t good enough. Progress without the playoffs is failure. Patience is for losers if you're the Cincinnati ...

Think instead in terms of the three guaranteed years on the franchise-record manager deal Francona has in his pocket ... “When we went to Tucson to hire Tito, Tito was an opportunity that ...

Tito, of course, is Terry Francona, the man who came out of retirement ... was their man on the day they met with him at his home in Tucson in October, closing a three-year deal (plus an option ...

Call it the Tito effect. There might be debates over how much impact a manager can have at the big league level, with all of ...

Terry Francona’s first opening day as manager of the Cincinnati Reds started in a dentist’s chair. About 12 hours later, ...