I’m an Orioles fan and this article mentions the Reds as a potential fit for Santander. Are the Reds a real threat to the O’s?
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I’m leaning towards no. I don’t think the Reds will have the financial resources available. I think they would like to have him, but they just had a qualifying offer of about $20 mil accepted by one of their potential free agents. That I think takes them out of contention for him. I don’t see them being able to afford another $20-25 mil for one player, and I highly doubt they would do a 5-6 year deal, 3 seems to be tops in recent years.
Probably not. I think the Reds could find a way to afford it in the end, but there’s a lot of other teams who could outbid them.
I’m not a huge fan of Santander for a couple of reasons. His price in free agency would be what you pay a slugging outfielder, but think he’s destined for 1B or DH in the next few years.
Plus it would necessitate more moves. Defensively, and outfield of Steer, Friedl and Santander would be rough to say the least. Reds would need to make other stuff happen to get Steer back to first and find another outfield option to make it all work.
If our payroll is 10-30M less than KC at the end of this offseason, it’ll be clear to me the Castellini’s are revenue sharing rent-seekers. I saw KC projected ~145M. Our 2015 payroll adjusted for inflation is more than that. If we want a better long-term media deal- money must be spent.
I’m not a big Santander fan. But there are other guys/combo of guys that are similar in quality/younger/cheaper. If tagging our career year swing man is our biggest $ commitment, I’m not going to be willing to financially support the team until they get real. I didn’t think we were Pirates-level, but we are. I don’t have sympathy for it because we have paid fairly competitive payrolls before, recently, with the same ownership group. Fans asking to be rank 15-20 in payroll when we are on an upswing is not demanding too much. If we maintain we are too poor, we will remain too poor.
I don’t see the front office spending any “big ” money, so definitely not
It is very obvious that he’s the best free agent fit for a team that desperately needs an outfield upgrade. They should definitely make an offer, but I give it 10% chance of actually signing him.
He is a bad fit. He can’t move. Bottom 20% sprint speed and range. He will be a DH in 2 years for sure, he basically is one now. This is a team that was minus 67 runs defensively and he would make them even worse defensively. Just because the team needs power, they should not look at who hit the most homers and try to get that player. Another outfielder to avoid should be Tyler O’Neil. Bad defender, big injury risk, bad left/right splits and strikes out 33% of the time.
Whatever happened to spend money to make money?
Could they? Yes. Will they? I doubt it.
I think if we get an outfielder it’s most likely O’Neill or Joc Pederson.
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I’m leaning towards no. I don’t think the Reds will have the financial resources available. I think they would like to have him, but they just had a qualifying offer of about $20 mil accepted by one of their potential free agents. That I think takes them out of contention for him. I don’t see them being able to afford another $20-25 mil for one player, and I highly doubt they would do a 5-6 year deal, 3 seems to be tops in recent years.
Probably not. I think the Reds could find a way to afford it in the end, but there’s a lot of other teams who could outbid them.
I’m not a huge fan of Santander for a couple of reasons. His price in free agency would be what you pay a slugging outfielder, but think he’s destined for 1B or DH in the next few years.
Plus it would necessitate more moves. Defensively, and outfield of Steer, Friedl and Santander would be rough to say the least. Reds would need to make other stuff happen to get Steer back to first and find another outfield option to make it all work.
If our payroll is 10-30M less than KC at the end of this offseason, it’ll be clear to me the Castellini’s are revenue sharing rent-seekers. I saw KC projected ~145M. Our 2015 payroll adjusted for inflation is more than that. If we want a better long-term media deal- money must be spent.
I’m not a big Santander fan. But there are other guys/combo of guys that are similar in quality/younger/cheaper. If tagging our career year swing man is our biggest $ commitment, I’m not going to be willing to financially support the team until they get real. I didn’t think we were Pirates-level, but we are. I don’t have sympathy for it because we have paid fairly competitive payrolls before, recently, with the same ownership group. Fans asking to be rank 15-20 in payroll when we are on an upswing is not demanding too much. If we maintain we are too poor, we will remain too poor.
I don’t see the front office spending any “big ” money, so definitely not
It is very obvious that he’s the best free agent fit for a team that desperately needs an outfield upgrade. They should definitely make an offer, but I give it 10% chance of actually signing him.
He is a bad fit. He can’t move. Bottom 20% sprint speed and range. He will be a DH in 2 years for sure, he basically is one now. This is a team that was minus 67 runs defensively and he would make them even worse defensively. Just because the team needs power, they should not look at who hit the most homers and try to get that player. Another outfielder to avoid should be Tyler O’Neil. Bad defender, big injury risk, bad left/right splits and strikes out 33% of the time.
Whatever happened to spend money to make money?
Could they? Yes. Will they? I doubt it.
I think if we get an outfielder it’s most likely O’Neill or Joc Pederson.