Nick Senzel doesn’t have to be a great CF for the idea to still work

It’s been less than two calendar years since the Cincinnati Reds picked up resident 2B and All Star Scooter Gennett off waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers. Seems like it’s been a tad longer than that though, no? There’s this pervasive idea among many Reds fans that Scooter hit the ground running immediately in Cincinnati, his home town, took the lineup by storm, and hasn’t looked back. That’s largely due to how hot he was down the stretch in 2017, and how he burst out of the gate in 2018 and, for a long time, challenged for the NL batting title.

That’s the kind of endearing play that can make it really easy to forget that in his first nine games played as a Red, he played each of 3B, LF, 2B,…