July is make-or-break for The Rebuild.
The Reds front office will spend the month making decisions that have a profound impact on the club and its future success. It wouldn’t be a shocker to learn that “July 2016” is the thickest section of the Rebuild Binder, filled with scratch outs, post-it notes and revisions.
That would present as a high-wire situation in normal circumstances. But the Reds have also chosen this time to change the front office guard. You’d expect decision-making to already be shifting from Walt Jocketty to Dick Williams. It is Williams now who will live with each choice on the back of his baseball card.