Wittenmyer & Williams: How are Cincinnati Reds supposed to compete amid MLB’s $765M deals?
December 20, 2024
Just an interesting bit of perspective into the next few years I think.
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The Reds aren’t SUPPOSED to compete. The system isn’t designed for them.
They’re not.
Baseball is a pay to win sport and the Reds’ owners aren’t pay to win owners. There’s nothing more to say. At best we’ll get a 1-2 year window where we can sneak into the wild card and get bounced.
Reds need to compete on a cycle like the Royals. Draft good prospects, suck for 3-5 years while developing prospects, make 3-5 good moves for veteran players compete for 3 years, sell prospects that are now veterans on the last year or two of their deal for young prospects, repeat.
They’ll push to put even more teams into the playoffs. A .500 team will make it in and then it’s a crapshoot.
If they don’t have the money to field anywhere close to a competitive team they could… sell the team to potential owners who do. I know it’s easier said than done, but still
Sell the team, Bob and Phil
$765m for one guy though is a huge investment with value that I don’t see pushing the Mets over the top. Honestly I think the Yankees are doing it right by spending their $700m on multiple players (I can’t believe I am crediting the Yankees).
Idk. Maybe sell the team to someone competent?
This is kind of apples to oranges. The Mets pay Soto 51 million per year. Adding 51 million per year to the Reds 2024 payroll wouldn’t have put us in the top 15 of clubs at 150 million. If the Reds or any other team doesn’t want to allocate those funds, fine, but they CAN compete with that. They aren’t willing to.
Adding like $40m/year to the outfield the next few years would do a ton to make this team competitive.
I feel this is a situation you cannot blame the ownership but rather blame MLB as a whole. Small market teams cannot compete.
Honestly, for all those simply saying sell the team Bob. Who do you think is going to buy them that would have the kind of money to invest in the team you want them to have? Also, how are they going to turn a profit on their investment? They aren’t just going to blindly throw money at the team and hope they win.
I would expect huge raises in ticket and concession prices at the minimum if that were to happen. Let’s hear some well thought out ideas instead of ” Just sell the team Bob!”
That’s the point. They’re not.
By spending any fucking amount of money?
They would be a RIDICULOUSLY competitive team with a $150mil payroll right now
They should have stayed locked out. The owners want revenue sharing.
Step 1: MLB could ban deferred contracts.
Step 2: institute a salary cap.
Step 3: forfeiture of draft picks for teams that go over the salary cap along with a penalty paid into a pot that gets split amongst teams under the salary cap.
Justin Williams exists on this earth solely to try and let the Castelinis off the hook.
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The Reds aren’t SUPPOSED to compete. The system isn’t designed for them.
They’re not.
Baseball is a pay to win sport and the Reds’ owners aren’t pay to win owners. There’s nothing more to say. At best we’ll get a 1-2 year window where we can sneak into the wild card and get bounced.
Reds need to compete on a cycle like the Royals. Draft good prospects, suck for 3-5 years while developing prospects, make 3-5 good moves for veteran players compete for 3 years, sell prospects that are now veterans on the last year or two of their deal for young prospects, repeat.
They’ll push to put even more teams into the playoffs. A .500 team will make it in and then it’s a crapshoot.
If they don’t have the money to field anywhere close to a competitive team they could… sell the team to potential owners who do. I know it’s easier said than done, but still
Sell the team, Bob and Phil
$765m for one guy though is a huge investment with value that I don’t see pushing the Mets over the top. Honestly I think the Yankees are doing it right by spending their $700m on multiple players (I can’t believe I am crediting the Yankees).
Idk. Maybe sell the team to someone competent?
This is kind of apples to oranges. The Mets pay Soto 51 million per year. Adding 51 million per year to the Reds 2024 payroll wouldn’t have put us in the top 15 of clubs at 150 million. If the Reds or any other team doesn’t want to allocate those funds, fine, but they CAN compete with that. They aren’t willing to.
Adding like $40m/year to the outfield the next few years would do a ton to make this team competitive.
I feel this is a situation you cannot blame the ownership but rather blame MLB as a whole. Small market teams cannot compete.
Honestly, for all those simply saying sell the team Bob. Who do you think is going to buy them that would have the kind of money to invest in the team you want them to have? Also, how are they going to turn a profit on their investment? They aren’t just going to blindly throw money at the team and hope they win.
I would expect huge raises in ticket and concession prices at the minimum if that were to happen. Let’s hear some well thought out ideas instead of ” Just sell the team Bob!”
That’s the point. They’re not.
By spending any fucking amount of money?
They would be a RIDICULOUSLY competitive team with a $150mil payroll right now
They should have stayed locked out. The owners want revenue sharing.
Step 1: MLB could ban deferred contracts.
Step 2: institute a salary cap.
Step 3: forfeiture of draft picks for teams that go over the salary cap along with a penalty paid into a pot that gets split amongst teams under the salary cap.
Justin Williams exists on this earth solely to try and let the Castelinis off the hook.