Every November for the last handful (or more) years, our good friends over at Royals Review host one of our favorite nerdy events of the non-baseball season: the annual SB Nation GM simulation, where someone somewhere takes control of all transactions for each of the 30 MLB franchises and, in full fake fashion, spends money like packs of banshees.
There are some rules and guidelines - we’ll list those below - but the crux here is that this is a one year simulation. Next November, we’ll pick it up again where the real 2020 Cincinnati Reds left off, not where the club we assembled in this sim ended up in some alternate history.