Today marks the beginning of a series I’ve been planning to start for a long time: Reds By The Numbers. For whatever reason, I’ve always been interested (obsessed?) with the Reds’ uniforms and each individual’s uniform number. When I see someone wear 36 now, I immediately think of Mario Soto (not Blake Wood). When I see 23, I’m thinking Hal Morris (not Adam Duvall…though, if he keeps hitting 30+ homers a year, I may think of Duvall instead of the next guy to wear the number).
Uniform numbers, to me, provide an interesting way to look back at Reds history.