This season went from interesting to boring pretty quickly, didn’t it? It wasn’t too long ago that the Reds were giving the best teams in the majors some serious fits and playing some seriously intriguing baseball. They were the healthiest they had been in about 4 years and things were a lot of fun. Tuning in wasn’t much of a chore because you knew that, for the first time in a while, you were getting competitive baseball.
And then, all of a sudden, things turned dull. A couple hitters regressed, Schebler, Winker, and Votto got hurt, and the Reds slogged through the month of August.