It stings.
The Cincinnati Reds off-season was bound to be frustrating, at least from a short term perspective. Aroldis Chapman is going to get traded. Jay Bruce and Todd Frazier may well get shipped out, too. The Reds won't be in on any of the big-name free agents, yet they'll get to watch their division rivals splash hundreds of millions of bucks to bring in even more talent to an already stacked National League Central.
The lone hope we all held was that things wouldn't get too sentimental.
Then, this happened.