You May Say I'm A Dreamer: Cincinnati Reds

What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. Watching a baseball team come together over a span of several years is a beautiful thing. When Walt Jocketty came to the Reds an advisor to Wayne Krivsky in 2008, the Reds were slowly digging out of a deep hole that they'd been mired in since the Jim Bowden era. Brandon Phillips was at second base, Joey Votto was at first base, Jay Bruce and Johnny Cueto were knocking down the door in the minors and would make their debuts later that season, and Krivsky had just flipped Josh Hamilton to Texas for Edinson Volquez. When Krivsky was fired early in the season to turn the team over to Jocketty, the task ahead of Jocketty was simple in theory and difficult in execution: take this core of young players and turn it into a contender. And so Jocketty worked at it. He drafted quick-rising colleg...