Nick Martinez Returning To Cincinnati Reds In 2025 Accepting Qualifying Offer | Chatterbox Reds
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Jon Heyman is reporting that Nick Martinez is expected to accept Cincinnati’s Qualifying Offer and sign a 1-year, $21.05M contract. Has until November 19 to officially accept.
Spotrac had Nick Martinez’ projected market value at 2-years, $37.5M. An AAV of $18.7M.
Seth Lugo – 3 year, $45M
Chris Sale – 2 year, $38M
WHY THE CINCINNATI REDS’ QUALIFYING OFFER TO NICK MARTINEZ CONFUSES RIVALS, BUT WORKS FOR REDS by Gordon Wittenmyer, published 11am ET today
Annual general managers meetings in Texas this week included talk about the 13 players that received qualifying offers.
Most talked about was the surprise over the Reds extending Nick Martinez a QO and Boston extending Nick Pivetta a QO.
When asked “Are you prepared for him to accept?” Nick Krall said “It’s kind of the starting pitching market, right?”
Expected to freeze payroll at 2024’s level (bottom 6 in MLB)
Nick Martinez in 2024: 16 starts, 26 relief appearances, 3.10 ERA. Finished season with 11 starts and 2.42 ERA over that span.
Big league rotation expected to feature Greene, Lodolo, Abbott, Martinez, and Lowder.
Also have Ashcraft as a depth piece, but depth took a blow with Brandon Williamson and Julian Aguiar expected to miss all of 2025 with Tommy John.
Scott Boras shared that he has received interest in signing Martinez to a multi-year deal.
“Well, certainly there’s an option of accepting a qualifying offer. He’s been offered multiyear contracts, obviously. The pitching market I think last year was more focused on the relief market. This year it’s very clear that it’s very focused on starting. I think the starters will be going quite quickly.”
Reds allegedly kicked the tires on a 2-year deal before extending the QO.
There is mutual interest in keeping Martinez in Cincinnati. “I’m getting older, and it’s time to kind of maximize, right?” Martinez said. “And I want to win. That’s a high priority to me, to win a championship. Cincinnati, especially hiring Terry (Francona as manager), I think there’s a great chance.”
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Offseason Outlook: Cincinnati Reds
By Anthony Franco | October 8, 2024 at 4:42pm CDT
The Reds hoped to make the jump from underdogs with an exciting young core to legitimate playoff contenders. It didn’t happen this year. With a splash managerial hire and returns to health from most of the rotation, expectations will again be high going into 2025.
The Reds have begun their offseason with a bang. As the season wound down, Cincinnati dismissed sixth-year skipper David Bell. That wasn’t especially surprising with the team en route to a 77-85 finish that represented a five-game drop relative to last season. Bell’s replacement was a stunner. The Reds brought Terry Francona out of what proved to be a one-year retirement. Landing one of the sport’s most respected managers should renew optimism going into 2025.