With the wrist injury to TJ Friedl and the suspension of Noelvi Marte, the Cincinnati Reds will already be forced to put together an Opening Day roster that - to the offseason’s eyes - would look rather unorthodox. That’s your team’s leader in WAR from 2023 (and the regular leadoff man against both LHP and RHP) as well as one of the frontrunner’s to win Rookie of the Year, after all.
With their once-vaunted depth already tested, we’re now getting word that some of the players who’d been penciled-in for other positions are now going to be tasked with being more versatile, with Will Benson - once the guy we thought would be a regular corner OF - now looking like the strong-half of a platoon in CF.