It is no secret that the Reds season has not gone well so far. It is also not a secret that the offense is mostly to blame for this. The team’s current wRC+ is 66, well below the 73 that the 2016 team posted in March/April. It would be the team’s worst first month production since at least 2002 (as far back as FanGraphs splits page goes), and probably much longer than that.
Teams go through offensive lulls all the time. But when they take place to start the season they get over analyzed since that is all the information available to react to.