2016 Cincinnati Reds season thread

[*ochocincos*]

The hitting future looks bright with youngsters Suarez, Duvall, and Schebler already in the bigs plus Winker and Peraza coming up as early as late this year. Winker and Peraza are top-of-the-order hitters, so that will help.

A future lineup of the following looks promising:
Peraza, 2B
Winker, OF
Votto, 1B
Suarez, 3B
Mesoraco, C
Cozart, SS
Duvall/Schebler, OF
P
Hamilton, OF

Same can be said for starting pitching...Reed and Stephenson are close to being ready for the bigs. The future starting rotation could be (in no particular order):
Desclafani
Bailey
Iglesias
Stephenson
Reed
(Lamb as 6th and fill in for injuries)

The big issue will continue to be relief pitching, as the Reds have a pretty mediocre set of RPs.
However, this may be improved if/when Lorenzen and Finnegan get moved to the bullpen.
Keury Mella could be in the majors within a couple years, improving the bullpen further.
At that point, the Reds would just need to make a couple pickups and/or trades to get some quality RPs to round out the bullpen and the Reds could compete.