Don't discount Price's presence as a chip in the Reds' favor.
"That's obviously something," Bailey said. "You hear from players who have been with other teams talking about other managers, other GMs, other front-office people -- whether it's good or bad. [It's important] knowing Bryan and knowing the relationship I have with him. I like our front office. It's a good bunch of guys. I like the owners. They do a lot here. Yeah, that definitely counts for something. At the end of the day, this is still a business. This is the way baseball works."
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"If you've only been one place, you only know one thing, right? You know what's here," Bailey said. "That's one of the variables that you do know. You can go somewhere else and, again, that's part of the gamble that you have to take."
Is Bailey the gambling type?
"We'll find out," he replied.