Add-in the $1.825 million the club paid to Pedro Strop, who was DFA’d, and that’s $30.725 million that’s off the books from the ~$145 million outlay they had for the total 2020 season. That isn’t me saying the 2021 Reds cannot be contenders, though. Trevor Bauer, of course, is the biggest piece they are set to lose. by Retrosheet. Thank you for the memories. All minor league baseball data provided by Major League Baseball Advanced Media 1925 Cincinnati Reds Statistics 1924 Season 1926 Season Record: 80-73, Finished 3rd in National League ( Schedule and Results ) I’d like to think this is an era where the Reds continue to push their chips all-in. All the 2018 Reds batting and pitching stats, standings, depth charts, roster notes, schedule/results, news and analysis. Is there a thread the needle way to somehow do both on a shoestring budget? So, what the heck do the Cincinnati Reds do now? They spent up to $149 million on free agent bats. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted A front office promotion, or consolidation? One of the most noticeable new features as fans head to Great American Ball Park this season is The Reds Brewery District, an 85-foot bar. as distributed by STATS. There’s enough of a pay-bump from that group year over year that will make doing nothing this offseason but keeping that core intact and bringing back Bauer alone raise the 2021 Reds payroll well above where it was in 2020, in all honesty. Do they chase their ace at the expense of an already weak offense? Archie Bradley, Brian Goodwin, Michael Lorenzen, and Curt Casali are among the Reds who’ll receive significant pay raises as they enter their latter years of arbitration. The best thing about Reds History is there's 150 years of material. Cincinnati Reds announce GM Nick Krall as head of Baseball Operations. That leaves a very small amount of flexibility with which to add significant offensive production, as only CF and SS remain spots where there is little money committed already. and play-by-play data provided by Baseball Info Solutions. The full list of beers available at The Reds Brewery District is: The new bar is part of an overall increased emphasis on craft beer at the ballpark this year: 21 new varieties are on draft, and there are 16 new bottled options. An incomplete list of baseball names you can sing to Van Halen’s “Panama”, Red Reporter Community Prospect Rankings 2012, Inappropriate cities for current MLB monikers - A Friday List. Of course, Nick Senzel and Jose Garcia are the presumptive futures of those positions, and there’s still ample upside for those spots in-house already. They even swung a deadline deal for perhaps the best relief arm on the market, all for a 2020 season that had been earmarked for years. Updated: Monday, October 19, 2020 10:53 AM ET, Park Factors The reality is that the Reds, at the moment, pretty much look like an as-is club that didn’t achieve what they wanted this year, look likely to lose their best piece, and don’t have a lot of financial or roster flexibility to replace it in full. I’d like to think if Dick and Nick went to Bob Castellini asking for $40 million more to spend, he’d give them the PIN number in a heartbeat. Located between sections 117 and 118 on … Maybe you do sign Didi Gregorius for SS and hope Kyle Boddy and the Driveline team can replace Bauer with the emergence of Tejay Antone, Tyler Mahle, and the next wave of revolutionized arms in the system, and maybe that’s good enough. Hall of Fame second baseman and former Cincinnati Reds great Joe Morgan has died at 77. Those stands are behind section 130 on the first base concourse and section 113 on the third base concourse. Maybe you get Marcus Semien on a pillow deal after his subpar 2020, and that allows enough money to then backfill the rotation on a non-Bauer arm in a year when the starting pitching market is so robust there could be bargains. It did not work in epic fashion, really, as the Reds crashed out of the playoffs in immediate and historic fashion, failing to score even a single run in 22 excruciating postseason innings. Even finding ways to dump money this winter won’t necessarily be easy, either, as few of the Reds with existing big money on their contracts possess enough value to get anything of significant value in the trade market. Carmel and Rivertown. The Reds entered the 2020 season with a team-record payroll before the pandemic prorated that down, but it still remained slightly below-average and merely an on-median salary compared to the rest of the league. Reds great, Hall of Fame 2B Morgan dies at 77. 121,928 talking about this. MLB Reacts: For which remaining team doth thou fan hardest. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Given the financial climate around the game, another opt-out in his contract after the 2021 season, and his -0.2 bWAR campaign this year, I’m guessing he will not opt-out this fall. The three players from the final 2020 roster that are reaching free agency are Bauer, Anthony DeSclafani, and Freddy Galvis. He’ll head into free agency with his 30 year old season on the horizon, and will surely do so after the Reds issue him a Qualifying Offer, which he’ll surely decline. An offseason with a laundry list of questions is now in focus. None of Shogo Akiyama, Mike Moustakas, or Castellanos did enough in their first years under contract to suggest they’re underpaid and could return significant value if moved on already, and we’re all aware Joey Votto and his $25 million per year isn’t getting moved anywhere, either. The fact is, their stumbles early in the year cost them any chance to host home games in the postseason, and an offense that was the single worst road offense among the 16 teams that made the playoffs played true to form once in Atlanta. It’s worth bringing up that bubbling subplot here, I suppose. They still weren’t good enough, however, and didn’t land the kind of breaks they needed to prolong their outside chance at success this year. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, Beer from Cleveland's Great Lakes, Lexington's West Sixth and Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company (which makes Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale) also will be on tap. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. Reclaimed bar siding lines the back of the bar, where backlit kegs are displayed. Included among the craft beers are about a dozen local or regional offerings. And that doesn’t do a thing to address an offense that just ranked 23rd in all MLB in team wRC+, one that had the worst team batting average of any MLB team in a century. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at @Reds. Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds will draft 17th in the 2021 MLB Draft Doug Gray. Two new Moerlein Lager House Craft Beer concession stands serve Moerlein's craft beers and 48 bottled selections. Let’s work our way to a 2021 baseline payroll first. They accounted for $17.5 million (Bauer), $5.9 million (Disco), and $5.5 million (Galvis) of the 2020 payroll, or $28.9 million total. Cincinnati breweries represented are Christian Moerlein, MadTree, Blank Slate, Fifty West, Rhinegeist, Mt. All rights reserved. Cincinnati Reds History has 11,560 members. They had already made under the radar moves to land two other ace-caliber aces, both of whom largely aced, too. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. Joe Morgan and the Big Red Machine, in pictures. One of the most noticeable new features as fans head to Great American Ball Park this season is The Reds Brewery District, an 85-foot bar. via redsminorleagues.com; Luis Castillo, Jesse Winker, and Amir Garrett will lead the pack of Reds entering their arbitration years for the first time. © 2020 www.cincinnati.com. This is the official Facebook page of the Cincinnati Reds. Odds are that’s exactly what they’ll try. Regardless, the Reds enter a winter with a solid foundation, but with the need to address a glaring issue while also losing the biggest piece of their biggest strength. If it pertains to the history of the Cincinnati Reds then this is the place to talk about it. On the flip side, the biggest money currently tied up in the pitching staff is largely in pieces other clubs might see as a bargain, at least aside from Wade Miley. The depth charts found on the Team Pages are based on projected playing time, NOT the current status of a team's roster. The new bar boasts 60 taps: 23 craft beers, plus Bud Light, Goose Island and Stella from Anheuser-Busch. The 2020 Reds were a good club, one better than any Reds team we’ve seen in a half-dozen years. The 2021 Reds will be the next Reds we get to watch, and there’s going to be a lot of work needed to make them look better than what we just watched in 2020, which we obviously learned yesterday simply wasn’t good enough, again. If you’re still in the mood to play what if about this season, I won’t blame you one bit. Raisel Iglesias just turned in perhaps his best season as the Reds closer and would have some value on the trade market, but he’s hardly overpaid when compared to back-end arms across the league. The question heading forward, of course, will be just how much the Reds will commit to spending next year and beyond given the lack of revenue-generation from fans in stadiums this year, and whether even getting back to the ~$145 million they’d expected to spend in 2020 is within reason. All stats are rest-of-season projections based on estimated playing time. It remains to be seen whether he sticks to his paintball-nuts promise to sign only lucrative 1-year deals as a free agent, ones that could see his single-season salaries break records while assuming huge risks on his own arm, but whether it’s a year at $40 million or a long-term deal akin to the one signed by his former UCLA teammate Gerrit Cole, bringing Bauer back will represent the single largest financial outlay for a 2021 Reds payroll if he were to return. The full list of beers available at those stands is: Prices on craft drafts increase from $8.75 to $9 this seaon; all other beer pricing remains unchanged. Craft beer has really grown in popularity at the ballpark: last year saw a 45 percent increase in craft beer sales, according to Tim Martin, director of operations for Delaware North, the company that runs the concessions at GABP. Located between sections 117 and 118 on the third base concourse, it's a concrete bar topped with wood from a single tree.