Reds Payroll Problems Off Season

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(09-30-2019, 11:01 AM)Circleville Guy Wrote: If I remember right, Giambi was a free agent that they decided not to resign that was coming off of a 30 homerun and 100 RBI season. Votto is already signed to a bad contract that other teams don’t want or would only take at pennies on the dollar. Like I said before, if you trade him then you’re not saving 25 million a year. You’re saving 5-8 Million and Votto has to okay the trade too.

Right

The only way Votto is going anywhere is 1. He has to agree to leave, he's already stated he's not. Could things change ? very doubtful

2. The Reds would have to continue to pay a large hunk of his salary. It's one in a million any team out there is going to roll the dice that a 36 year old clearly in decline, slow, fairly bad baserunning 1Bman is going to turn it around and pay most of his salary.

I won't say it's impossible, they got rid of Bailey, but highly, highly unlikely.