Cincinnati Reds 2017 Season Preview

The Cincinnati Reds “earned” the second pick in the 2017 draft with their 2016 season. Is there hope for fans in 2017?

The Cincinnati Reds definitely played like a team that was worthy of the second-worst record league in 2016, with a pitching staff that was historically bad and nowhere near enough offense to make up for it!

While the Reds were not the Cincinnati Reds “Big Red Machine” of the 1970s, they had enjoyed a period of success, having won two division titles and made the playoffs three times since 2010 before the 2014 Reds team seemed to fall apart at the seems and a rebuild happened.

After 98 losses in 2015 and 94 in 2016, Reds fans are very much ready to see some winning sometime soon.

Will 2017 start that positive trajectory? We’ll take a look over the next few pages:

We’ll take a look at the team’s 2016-2017 offseason moves, both the key losses and key additions.

Then we’ll take a look at the team’s lineup and bench, followed by the rotation and bullpen.

We’ll follow that up with a run through of the people in charge of the team in the management, coaching and front office roles.

Finally, you’ll get a prediction of what we at Call to the Pen see as the Reds’ 2017 chances.

Let’s kick it off with the offseason moves…

Next: Offseason Movement