Four ways the Cincinnati Reds can call 2016 a success

I don't suppose I'm going out on a limb when suggesting that an MLB team fresh off a 98 loss season isn't exactly aiming to win a lot of games immediately when their subsequent offseason moves include trading away two All Stars and making Blake Wood the lone player signed to a big league contract. That's exactly the course followed by the Cincinnati Reds since the end of the 2015 season, however, which means that if big league wins are the only things that make you sleep easy at night, you're going to have quite a restless time between now and October.

Between the 25 players in the big league dugout, the protected players on the 40-man roster, and the hundreds of minor leaguers down on the…