Remember that one time, in a galaxy seemingly far, far away, when the Cincinnati Reds opted to send career -5.4 bWAR Juan Castro up to pinch hit for future MVP and former #1 overall draftee Josh Hamilton?
These are those Cincinnati Reds. You know them. You’ve watched them for your entire life, sometimes with your Reds hat on, sometimes with it spinning across the room after you’ve thrown it, and your shoulder, in frustration.
We thought those Reds were a thing of the past, though. We watched them finally, mercifully get aggressive this winter, swinging hard for big names like Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, Sonny Gray, Tanner Roark, and Alex Wood in a fit of pertinence.