I just completed an assessment of the front end of the Cincinnati Reds’ bullpen in 2017 with the assumption that Simon and Ohlendorf would be gone, but is that right assumption? Do Simon and Ohlendorf fit on the 2017 Reds?
I would only ask that you take a step back and look what has happened in 2016. Simon was signed off of the street at the end of spring training and given only one pre-season start. It appeared that he was injured all year, but played through it because the Reds were in a pinch.