Why the Reds shouldn’t be sellers in 2019. Not now. Not ever.

Over at The Athletic, long-time Reds writer Mo Egger made the case this past weekend that the Reds need to be sellers at the trade deadline. His case hinges on this paragraph:

This is a chance for the Reds to be proactive, not necessarily in an effort to liquidate and sell off pieces for less than they’re worth, but to capitalize on having a cadre of players who can be flipped for assets that can further push a rebuild that’s yielding results.

I understand Egger’s point, but over the course of the Reds six-year long rebuild, no paragraph of writing about that process has frustrated me more. It’s a knee-jerk take rooted in the Reds’ scuffling at the plate and coupled with businessman’s…