Cincinnati Reds pitchers and catchers report to spring training today

The long, hard winter is over. Baseball is back.

This is a fun time of year — for most of us, at least. If you’ve been a loyal reader of Redleg Nation over the years, you probably know that I’m generally pretty optimistic about the state of the Reds. This off-season, I confess to having lost a little patience with the ongoing rebuilding process — gotta keep reminding myself to Trust The Process — but with the opening of spring training, I can’t help but get excited about the season before us.

We’ll make our season predictions and start looking at wins and losses and expectations at some point in the near future, but for today, let’s enjoy the fact that, very soon, a number of actual…