It is now spring (at least as far as baseball is concerned) and time for optimism to abound. This season, I’ll be dropping in every couple of weeks or so to see how the Reds are progressing along the path to being a championship team. For this first edition, I thought I would be nice to be as optimistic as possible. That is, what is the best we can hope for? For this exercise, I try to peg each player to what is probably their 75th percentile performance or something close to that. It’s mostly an academic exercise and really unlikely to happen.