What do you do when your starting rotation is the most tattered, disheveled group in the entire major leagues? Well, if you’re the Cincinnati Reds - and since there’s only one most tattered, most disheveled starting rotation out there, you are in this scenario - you do what most sensible folks would try in such a scenario.
You strip it down to its bare bones and try to build it back up again.
That’s exactly what the Reds began doing last week when they optioned Cody Reed back to Louisville. It’s what they continued to do when they optioned Rookie Davis to Louisville today.