The Cincinnati Reds will not be competitive in 2016. I think we're all on the same page about that. Even if all those starters pan out, even if Winker pushes for LF by June, even if Eugenio Suarez becomes basically Hanley Ramirez...there's still a huge gap between these dudes here and those dudes in St. Louis, Chicago, and decreasingly so Pittsburgh. It's still baseball, and there's still Joey Votto, so it will still be fun. But the Reds will not be competitive in 2016.
What to do about this? The Reds' new GM will probably shuttle off some veterans for prospects, which I think we're generally on-board with.