Along with many other fans, my winter of Reds discontent reached new heights of frustration when news broke that the Milwaukee Brewers had completed a trade to acquire budding outfield superstar Christian Yelich from the Marlins.
My frustration wasn’t boiling over simply because the Brewers had succeeded where the Reds apparently had come up short. Multiple sources have reported the Marlins wanted Nick Senzel or Hunter Greene as the headliner in any deal which would have put Yelich into a Reds uniform. The Reds reluctance to give up either of those prospects along with two or three other highly regarded prospects for a single player, even Yelich, is understandable.