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The Reds just had the first negative WAR pitching staff pretty much ever

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Positivity, in WAR, is a good thing. Negativity, however, is not. The Cincinnati Reds either missed that memo, threw it a pair of middle fingers, or simply couldn't quite gallop past that threshold in 2016, as they just wrapped posting the first staff-wide negative fWAR season since at least 1900. Jeff Sullivan dove into the details for FanGraphs at the link above, detailing just how godawful the pitching was over the course of the season. Since there's no more of it to have to prepare for, it's actually a refreshingly humorous read. Go big or go home, right?