We are here to talk about a Cincinnati Reds baseball club that’s already missing Nick Castellanos, Jesse Winker, Eugenio Suarez, Tucker Barnhart, Sonny Gray, Wade Miley, Michael Lorenzen, Tejay Antone, Amir Garrett, and Mychal Givens off last year’s club. Through all the culling and jettisoning done this winter, the Reds barely even brought back any players at all who had any chance of making the club for Opening Day, something that was a feature, not a bug, of the payroll slashing priorities they had.
As Opening Day nears, however, it’s looking more and more as if some of the very few key pieces still part of this club aren’t going to be ready to play, either, further denting the potency of this once promising roster.