Today in Reds history: Acquiring Bronson Arroyo

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The last two decades of Cincinnati Reds baseball has been tough to get through, at times. There have been some highlight years, but they’ve been quite limited. Instead, what many Reds fans have had to be happy with is the performance of individual players. And that brings us to one of the more valuable Cincinnati players in the last two decades: Bronson Arroyo.

March 20th, 2006. That was the day that we all learned that the Reds had made a trade with the Boston Red Sox, sending out power hitting outfielder Wily Mo Pena and acquiring right-handed pitcher Bronson Arroyo. While I had just begun writing about baseball at the time (officially I registered RedsMinorLeagues.com in January…