Red Reporter · Oct 23, 2015
What Reds history can teach us about the long road back
Jeff Curry-USA TODAY SportsThe 2015 Cincinnati Reds were a historically bad baseball team.In the long and storied history of the franchise, only three other Reds teams lost as many or more games than this year's edition.By winning percentage, the 2015 Reds' .395 number is not quite in the bottom ten, becoming merely the eleventh worst showing in the franchise's 134 year history.
But there is good news.All those teams that were as bad as or worse than the recent Reds eventually bounced back, climbed out of the cellar and returned to postseason play.But how long did it take, and more importantly, how did they do it?What can history teach us about how the Reds can return to baseball relevance?