Jesse Winker started the season offensively just about as slow as is physically possible, a trait he shared in common with pretty much every other bat on the Cincinnati Reds not named Derek Dietrich. Lately, though, the offensive force we expected Winker to be has begun to show its true form, and Saturday was no different.
Winker doubled as part of a 2 for 3 day that featured a run and a walk, in the process raising his season OPS up to a much more Winkerian .828. That’s going to keep rising by the week, too, as Red Reporter’s Five Dumb Predictions for the 2019 Reds insisted that he’ll finish the year with a star-caliber .