GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Dick Williams opens the door from the Reds facility to the workout fields and the stiff Arizona sun smacks his sunglasses. The Reds’ president of baseball operations basks in the morning glow spring training provides and the Groundhog Day feel of warmth and blue skies.



Yet, at the Reds’ training complex this year the sun feels brighter, the skies bluer.



For a franchise finally leaving a half-decade of rebuilding behind, this feels far from Groundhog Day. More precisely, it’s Judgment Day.



At the epicenter of this is an offseason that piggybacked dealing the organization’s top prospect in July by spending $164 million on a collection of free agents expected to help pull the Reds from irrelevancy.



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