The Cincinnati Reds signed no Anthony Santander, no Teoscar Hernandez this offseason. They did, however, sign Terry Francona to be the team’s manager, and that pretty much ensures a bopper will instead emerge from within the club’s ranks.
That’s how this works, right?
Cincinnati made a big splash with their manager and rather than making another cannonball off the high-dive with their roster opted to improve it marginally along the fringes, baking their hopes once again into the in-house cake that is their one-time youth movement’s improvements. To be fair, though, said group isn’t really that young anymore, they’re merely inexperienced in both the arts of a) playing full-season baseball and b) winning while doing it.