If the Great Rebuild that started after the 2014 season had worked out, the Opening Day lineup for 2020 would have had Jose Peraza at shortstop, Dilson Herrera at second and Adam Duvall in left. Scott Schebler would have been the fourth outfielder. The rotation would have included Cody Reed, Brandon Finnegan and Rookie Davis.
It didn’t quite work out that way, of course.
That’s because predicting the success of prospects is about as tricky as predicting that Opening Day 2020 would be in July before an empty stadium because of a worldwide pandemic.
Designating Reed for assignment and then trading him means the Reds only have one player left from the trades of Jay Bruce, Aroldis Chapman, Johnny Cueto, Todd Frazier and Mike Leake.