Fangraphs Dan Szymborski, the cat loving and ZiPS maestro has written his elegy for the 2019 Cincinnati Reds. He goes into what the Reds plan was heading into the year, and where it went wrong. But for me the most interesting part of the elegy was actually when he began to talk about the 2020 team.
Based on current rosters and assumptions, ZiPS projects the Reds to be in the 82-85 win territory.
On paper, the squad in Cincinnati is kind of in that “if everything goes right they could contend for a wild card” range.