Self-Proclaimed Expert Baseball Analysts

Ohio's winning baseball team cut injury-prone OF Alex Escobar.

Who cares and what does this have to do with the Reds? Well, Alex was the "can't-miss 5 tool future superstar" who Jim Bowden would have gotten from the Mets in the failed trade of Barry Larkin in 2000.

It's hard to care about a team that goes through the same thing almost every year.

Junior injured
Larkin injured
Kearns injured
No pitching
No trades to help team
No worthwhile free agent signings
Glaring holes in at least two positions
Players gaining impressive individual stats (yet somehow, the team isn't winning - see Casey, Graves, Dunn, etc.)
Near last place

So I ask, does anyone have any reason to care about this team right now?

Or are we waiting until Spring Training Optimism kicks in again, which will no doubt morph into another hot spring, which will then morph into the June Swoon, followed by repeated injuries to key players and no deadline trades, and then another meaningless August and September?

Is that what Cincinnati baseball is all about?

Looks like it from here. Just an opinion.