If a team picks up Moose who Reds cut, do Reds escape paying him ?

[kevin]

It would be nice to get out from under some or all of the 22 million Reds must pay The Moose. If a team would pick him up, hopefully that team has to pay some of it. Anything the Reds can save on The Moose contract is a plus. I'm hoping some team grabs The Moose because they don't have to trade anything for him as a cut player. It would have to be a team with deep pockets needing Third, Second or First or a DH. Deep Pocket Big City Team now needing players and willing to take a chance on Moose.

I've looked at internet news. Too many just talking baseball. I would like to know the money end. If a team picks up Moose, do Reds get out of some of this 22 million they owe the Moose in 2023 ? It is a key rebuilding question for a 100 loss team in dire need of being rebuilt. To rebuild, Reds will need money. The Moose and Votto contracts stand in the way for 2023, but not 2024. It would be nice if some team takes some of the Moose contract off Reds hands now, with Reds cutting Moose.

The Bengals had to say good-bye to the Dalton to AJ Green era that brought 5 straight play-off seasons. Bengals took their salaries and others gone, and brought in Burrow, Chase, Higgins, a whole new Defense and a whole new Offensive Line. The Bengals rebuild is a sports success story. The Reds find themselves in the same exact position the Reds were in after 2019 or maybe farther along in 2020. Reds have some good young pitchers in Greene, Ashcraft, Lodolo and others to be the young Burrow, Chase, Higgins youth. The Reds still need to get out from under some player contracts to build around these young players as Bengals did. It is coming, it will happen.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

They'd only get to save what he makes with his new team, which would be around $1m or whatever the minimum a 12 year vet can be offered. So it'd be $21m from the Reds and $1m or whatever from the new team.

Most likely Moose gets a non-roster spring training invite from a team and he does poorly before not making the roster, and the Reds save nothing. He's going into his age 34 season, is always hurt, and has been hitting sub-Mendoza the last two years.

That contract was terrible from Day 1.

[*bengalfan74*]

(12-29-2022, 12:01 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: They'd only get to save what he makes with his new team, which would be around $1m or whatever the minimum a 12 year vet can be offered. So it'd be $21m from the Reds and $1m or whatever from the new team.

Most likely Moose gets a non-roster spring training invite from a team and he does poorly before not making the roster, and the Reds save nothing. He's going into his age 34 season, is always hurt, and has been hitting sub-Mendoza the last two years.

That contract was terrible from Day 1.

Yes that contract was awful on a scale that's way beyond regular awful.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(01-01-2023, 07:28 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Yes that contract was awful on a scale that's way beyond regular awful.

Homer Bailey-ish