The 2016 season wasn't ever destined to be one to write home about for the win/loss record of the Cincinnati Reds. That much was made clear when the likes of Todd Frazier and Aroldis Chapman were shipped out during the winter and the biggest free agent acquisitions came in the forms of Blake Wood, Alfredo Simon, and Ross Ohlendorf.
Instead, the 2016 season was meant to form melds and drop deadwood, to see which players emerged as pieces that looked the part of 2018 cogs instead of burning through bullpen and bench options to scrape out an extra win in May or June.