Wittenmyer & Williams: How trade deadline snoozer bodes for Cincinnati Reds future

Welcome to Wittenmyer & Williams – a point/counterpoint column from Enquirer Reds reporter Gordon Wittenmyer and sports columnist Jason Williams. Each week the longtime friends, reunited after covering baseball together in Minnesota earlier in their careers, pick a hot baseball – or sometimes, non-baseball – topic and debate it.

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Wittenmyer: Hey, man, I just woke up after this snoozer of a trade deadline for the Reds. Sorry if I dozed off during all that quiet time outside the Reds' war room. You’re the guy who’s been in Cincinnati all…