Since I’ve been old enough to follow Reds baseball, I’m not sure I remember the Reds going through a true rebuild before now.
Sure, there have been seasons where they’ve been hapless in one area, where they had some good pieces but the injury bug bit them, where the moves they made didn’t work out. I can’t remember the team doing a voluntary rebuild in that time, though. The “we need to stink now so we can be better in a couple of years” type of rebuild.
That’s the type of the rebuild the Reds tried to kick off after the 2014 season.