It came as a bit of a surprise to many of us when Dick Williams stepped down as Cincinnati Reds President of Baseball Operations nearly two weeks ago. The Reds, you’ll recall, had just made the playoffs again for the first time since the signing of the Magna Carta, and were seemingly just beginning a run that ownership and the front office had invested in heavily just last winter.
While the precise direction where the Reds headed next was, and still is a bit of a mystery in the wake of that news, we found out Monday morning that there will absolutely not be too big of a deviation.