Click here for a printable map of Arizona's spring training stadiums. Click here test your baseball slang. Griffey had a good season, but not by his standards, which is why the whole deal was deemed a failure.
Expectations are a funny thing.
This was a team with one of the better rotations and best bullpens in baseball. The offense wasn't great, but it wasn't bad, either. The Reds seemed to give up, though, inexplicably trading Denny Neagle while in the hunt for a wild-card birth. The Reds have very good talent in all the right places. The starting pitching is young and fresh, the bullpen is better than respectable, and the line-up has big bats.