"My offseason officially ends in just over a week. I'll be on a jet plane headed to Phoenix and spring training.

Every offseason, I get asked about 900 times what I do in the offseason. My answer is always: "I cover the Reds." There is no offseason in baseball. By quick count, I wrote 80 stories or so for the paper since the season ended. That doesn't count blog items and Twitter posts.

It's been a busy offseason because the Reds have done a lot.

But the question this and any offseason is always: Did they do enough?

We'll see. But the Reds tried to address pitching as best they could. Their three biggest moves of the offseason all involved adding pitchers.

The biggest difference between the 2010 Reds and the 2011 Reds was starting pitching. In 2010, the starters went 57-44 with a 4.05 ERA. In 2011, the starters went 50-55 with a 4.47 ERA.

Mat Latos was brought in to shore up the rotation. The Reds gave up a ton to get Latos – first-round picks Yonder Alonso, Yasmani Grandal and Brad Boxberger – as well as Edinson Volquez.

Latos is a great, young talent. But he alone is not going to turn around the rotation. The Reds need Bronson Arroyo to be a lot closer to what he was in 2010 than what he was in 2011."