It has been something of an odd year for the prognostication corner of Red Reporter HQ.
Gone is Joey Votto, stalwart that he was, the sabermetric dream of a player who graced the roster of the Cincinnati Reds long before they themselves embraced sabermetrics - and long after. In his stead sit a pile of inexperienced youngsters, the small sample size bugaboos we long ago learned not to trust until they’d given us much more data to process. Said youngsters are talented, though - at least, the ones who are still healthy and unsuspended, that is.