Assembly Hall (07-06-2022),bm1475 (07-06-2022),icehole3 (07-06-2022)
I think those are the types of free agents that should be avoided at all costs (like the guy we are currently trying to use an asset to get rid of). I'd rather do bounce back Pham types on a 1 year plus a mutual option.
Guys who signed for that range this offseason have been pretty "meh" (opening day age):
Chris Taylor (31)
Avisail Garcia (30)
Jorge Soler (30)
Eddie Rosario (30) - Signed for 2 years $9M per
Starling Marte (33) - Signed for $20M per
Kyle Schwarber (29) - Signed for $20M per and has hit well
Mark Canha (33) - Signed for 2 years $13M per
Leury Garcia (31)
Anthony Rizzo (32) - Signed for 2 years $16M per and has hit well
boognish (07-07-2022)
If the Reds give him the highest offer.
This was Pham when he signed:
“I’m playing to get some numbers, I don’t care about anything else,” the outspoken Pham told reporters. “I got to look out for me. At the end of the day baseball is going to move on without me. I got to get mine right now.”
He slapped someone at work over couch cushion money. He will go wherever shows him the most love ($).
Old school 1983 (07-06-2022),Ron Madden (07-06-2022),Wonderful Monds (07-06-2022)
When you need 15 new players on your team, you might not want to put all your eggs in one basket.
There aren’t many contending teams built primarily with stop gaps and bounce backs.
Reds need a solid core. They can worry about superstars once that core is in place.
Last edited by Kc61; 07-06-2022 at 06:20 PM.
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
I'm going to guess Pham rejects the option to become a FA, assuming his numbers don't tank from here on out.
Hell, he'll probably be traded.
If you need 15 new players, you have no business tying up half your payroll for 3 "solid" players. If you have all that money tied up there's nothing left for them to acquire a superstar.
I just think free agents in that range are just as likely to be albatross contracts in 2 years than they are to be part of a core.
Old school 1983 (07-07-2022)
Krall's move right now would be to tell the world that Castillo is off the market, because the Reds aren't getting offers commiserate with his value to the club. It would be a bluff -- minds can always change, but pulling him back with Montas and Mahle questionable would show teams that the Reds aren't just trading him to trade him.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
BEETTLEBUG (07-07-2022),wlf WV (07-07-2022)
REDREAD (07-07-2022)
What would you say.....ya do here?
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