It has not been a season to remember for the Cincinnati Reds. Transactional departures followed immediately after a greed-fueled lockout, with the team’s ownership doing everything they could to stick their feet in their mouths with every move they made, only for Phil Castellini to actually stick his foot in his mouth with his comments on Opening Day.
Injuries followed early and often from that point forward, and the result was a start to a season so poor that it doomed any and all chance they’d have anything to play for by the end of April. One of those dooming injuries was to the shoulder of ace Luis Castillo, though admittedly his month-long absence cannot be solely to blame for the state the team is in today.