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What if Nick Martinez eschews the Reds Qualifying Offer and indicators somewhere else - Gardner53 - 01-14-2026
Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images Nick Martinez accepting the $21+ million Qualifying Deal QO) released him by the Cincinnati Reds would be an excellent trouble for the Reds to sort via. Besides, there's a reason they assumed him useful sufficient to roll that dice - it's a sign he's that rare mix of elite high quality and proven manufacturing, something the current starting turning could frantically utilize heading in to the 2025 's not too much gone from the decision in 2015 to a) bring Martinez in to begin with as a swingman who 'd supply rotation depth and b) guaranteeing a minimum of $16 million to Frankie Montas to anchor the turning despite him having missed practically all of 2023 with major shoulder issues. The Reds knew they required turning help after that, and they recognize they require turning help currently, also - especially with the major injuries to Brandon Williamson and Julian , Martinez decreasing Cincinnati's QO and signing in other places in free firm would be a boon to payroll. It would certainly leave them someplace in the variety of ~$70 million for 2025, if you include the choice buyouts to Luke Maile and Jakob Junis. If they genuinely were to seek a pay-roll of some $105 million, that's an entire heap of cash to use in either totally free firm or getting players currently on lucrative contracts via , though, is a roster without Nick Martinez, and it's rather clear the team's starting turning needs a bottle the quality of, state, Nick Martinez. For all the youth and talent and upside had in a rotation of Hunter Greene, Nick Lodolo, Rhett Lowder, Andrew Abbott, and. that's where points obtain and Abbott had their seasons end early as a result of significant injuries, with Lodolo now managing injuries in each of his major league periods. Graham Ashcraft, meanwhile, saw his limited pitch mix again not wind up a good fit as a starter prior to he, too George Foster Jersey, arrived at the hurt checklist completely mid-year. Williamson and Aguiar are done for every one of 2025 after late-season Tommy John surgical treatments, while banking large on Connor Phillips - for all his skill - after his yippish 2024 seems reckless at , if it's not mosting likely to be Nick Martinez aiding increase this beginning rotation, it's going to need to be someone else - and most every various other'somebody else' out there is either mosting likely to be a) not like Martinez remained in 2024 or b) going to need a much, a lot bigger economic outlay than the 1 year, $21+ million commitment he has been provided Reds with a $70 million payroll and no Martinez would certainly after that need to get actually, really creative, specifically considering that they still need to fix a violation whose overall 87 wRC+ in 2014 was 5th worst in all of baseball including a general wRC+ of just 85 from their collective outfield). Perhaps they can talk Walker Buehler right into concerning pitch for the Reds, the team he was a follower of expanding up down in Lexington prior to heading to Vanderbilt to join in the excellent ol' Derek Johnson pipeline.