Who do you want added (inc payroll)?

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(Yesterday, 02:46 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Reds now at an estimated $81 mill in payroll for 2025 with Martinez signing his QO of $21 mill.

I would be surprised to see the Reds exceed $120 mill in payroll, and it may be closer to $100 mill.
If so, they don't have much to work with when it comes to new additions and may have to find some good sneaky bargain players to stay within their (self-imposed) budget.

As of right now, the Reds have 3-4 of their starting rotation sorted out in Martinez, Greene, and Abbot.
Maybe add Lodolo to that, but I'm worried he won't ever be reliable from a durability and/or consistency standpoint.
I liked what I saw from Rhett Lowder, but with such a limited sample size, will teams start finding his tells and begin to tee off on him?

With both Brandon Williamson and Julian Aguiar out for the season with Tommy John surgery, it may still be in the Reds' best interest to add one more dude to the rotation while Lodolo and Lowder battle it out for the final rotation spot.

They could also use a couple solid RPs and at least one if not two hitters.

A SP, couple RPs, and 1-2 good hitters may be hard to find on $20-40 mill budget.

With 13 players receiving the Qualifying Offer of $21.05 mill but only Martinez accepting it, it means everyone else who declined is looking for either >$21 mill APY or at least around $20 mill APY but a multi-year deal.
Reds won't likely land more than one of guys at that pay range with what they have remaining.

Means we're going to have another shitty season.

Which usually means he shouldn't have been extended it and we valued him a lot more than anyone else did (you know his agent got a pulse of what he could expect in FA before telling him to accept it).