The Cincinnati Reds likely strategy as the trade deadline approaches

Before ever writing a word in this post, I spent a solid fifteen minutes searching through both our Getty photo archive and that of USA Today.

I was on the hunt for a pretty specific picture, to be clear - one featuring a pair of teammates, both of whom have put up pretty good offensive numbers so far in 2025. Surely they’d scored on the same homer and there would be a good high-five at the plate pic, or maybe I could find one of them spittin’ sunflower seeds while sitting next to one another on the bench.

There isn’t one of the two of them, however. The Cincinnati Reds are precisely halfway through their 2025 season, and there’s not a single picture of these guys together despite both having…