The Cincinnati Reds ‘reboot’ failed miserably, in case you didn’t notice

“The best word or term I saw was from (Detroit GM) Dave Dombrowski: reboot,” Jocketty said. ”That’s kind of what we’re doing. We’re rebooting or retooling. It’s not a rebuild.”

Keep that in mind - it was not a rebuild.

Those words were uttered by then-GM Walt Jocketty just after the non-waiver trade deadline in 2015, just days after the team dealt away resident ace Johnny Cueto and rotation stalwart Mike Leake, who had long been a prototypical Mike Leake type. Jocketty spoke to the media in the wake of those moves, with then-Enquirer beat writer John Fay able to relay them to us.

I suppose you could chalk those moves up to a much older example of a franchise aligning payroll to its resources,…