by J-Dub and Meehan

Now that baseball season is over for most teams, their focus starts to shift toward next year. One team that needs to be looking to next year is the Cincinnati Reds. Everybody has seen this club get built into a perennial contender in the NL Central, and everybody has seen this club not be able to get it done come October. There’s an old baseball adage that say when you need to make a change, you can’t fire the players, so you fire the manager.

It seems that Reds general manager Walt Jocketty was thinking about firing some people after the Reds notched what many consider to be yet another disappointing end to this season.  According to CBS Sports, Jocketty had been considering making hitting coach Brook Jacoby the sacrificial lamb until a conversation occurred between himself and manager Dusty Baker. While CBS Sports…