The NL Central is far from the strongest division in baseball, but for a team in contention for a World Series ring it’s a good place to look for deadline acquisitions. Yesterday, Sam covered the Chicago Cubs as a possible trade partner, and today we’ll look at the Cincinnati Reds — a team firmly entrenched in a long-term rebuild — and what they could provide the Yankees with.
It wasn’t too long ago when the Reds were in the middle of possibly opening a window of contention. A playoff team, albeit in the expanded system of 2020, it had an intriguing nucleus of starters with Sonny Gray, Trevor Bauer, and Luis Castillo, paired with a lineup anchored by the likes of Jesse Winker, Nick Castellanos, and Joey Votto.