Reds Spend About Half Payroll on 2 Players.

[CJD]

Signing Homer over Cueto will go down as one of the most monumental mistakes in recent Reds history.

I know that Cueto signed for 25 million more than Bailey (over 6 years) with the Giants and hindsight is 20/20, but this was barely even hindsight. At the time of signing, it was widely considered a mistake to give Bailey, who was a replacement level player from 2007 to 2011 before being a slightly above average (2 to 3 WAR) player with an average ERA (never lower than 3.49 to that point...and still not below that mark) for the following 2 years.

So, suffice it to say, I wish we had never signed Bailey...He has held this team back to a pretty extreme degree so far since he signed that ludicrous contract.

Votto, on the other hand, is definitely worth the money we spent on him. He's a surefire hall of famer and I'm glad to have him on the team.