With apologies to fielding, the two biggest components of professional baseball clubs are hitting and pitching. Baseball 302 stuff this is decidedly not, folks.
When a franchise gets both of those major tenets wrong, however, it’s probably worth pointing it back out. The 2022 Cincinnati Reds got many, many things wrong, and while luck and injuries and the fates often conspired to conflagrate those problems, it’s not as if their overriding plan was anything other than to get worse at those two things, the hitting and the pitching.
They dealt away stars during the winter, while waving goodbye to others they’d once employed.