He certainly brought them over the hump in the bench-clearing brawl department when he kicked and punched the crap out of Kevin Mitchell.
LINK FROM TOM BROWNING'S BOOK
anyway back to the topic........
Instead of players I will nominate the entire 2003 season as the all-time greatest letdown. It was over-hyped for several years that the Reds were "rebuilding toward 2003", from whence they will be competitive.