The Cincinnati Reds hit .212 as a team during the 2020 campaign, which was positively awful. It was the lowest mark among all 30 MLB clubs, the lowest in recent memory, the lowest since the Norman Invasion of 1066, the lowest since this godawful year started seventeen thousand years ago.
Given the preponderance of change in the way baseball is played these days - pitches routinely topping 100 mph, strikeouts galore, dingers a-plenty, et cetera - I thought it would be interesting to check in on one particular aspect to see if it was an outsized culprit in their hitting foibles.