DALLAS – With a flurry of free agent signings making headlines around baseball over the past week, the Cincinnati Reds got two days into the winter meetings looking more like a team needing to make a trade if they want to improve their roster anytime soon.
But that avenue comes with the same problem they created when they added starting pitcher Brady Singer last month in a trade from the Kansas City Royals for Jonathan India.
“If you trade a guy on the big-league roster, you’re also havi
In theory, the Reds might backfill India’s departed offensive production with the presumptive returns to health for the full season of Matt McLain, TJ Friedl, Jeimer Candelario and even Christian Encarnacion-Strand.
But if those 2024 injuries also showed them anything, it’s that they’re working with a precarious margin between having a competitive lineup and a mediocre one. It would seem a dangerous game to try to add an outfielder by trading from what may not be as much infield depth as some think.
ng to backfill for that player,” said Krall, who added that’s been the asking price more often than the Reds’ prospects. “It’s not as easy as one for one. It’s one for one, plus you’ve got to figure out how to fill that hole you just created.”
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