Monday, October 13, 2014

The Cincinnati Reds' roster as it stands today

The tables below include the players with contracts with and/or under control by the Cincinnati Reds and their status today. I have tried to organize these tables in a way to make it easy to find the information you're looking for. Within each table, players are sorted first by the year their contract ends; second (descending) by their 2014 salary; and third alphabetically by name. Well-known players (i.e. the starting pitchers and relief pitchers as well as the starting position players) are listed first with less-well-known players included later.

Please let me know, either with a comment or by email, if you find any errors or omissions. Note that I do not intend to update this as contracts are signed, etc. This is intended to be a snapshot of the situation today.

Starting Pitchers
PlayerPosition
Year
Contract
Ends
2014
Salary
(Millions)
2015
Salary
(Millions)/
Status
Comment
Johnny Cueto
RSP
2014
$10.00
$10.00
Reds option for 2015
Mat Latos
RSP
2014
$7.25
Arb.
Mike Leake
RSP
2014
$5.93
Arb.
Alfredo Simon
RSP
2014
$1.50
Arb.
Tony Cingrani
LSP
2014
?
?
Under control
Homer Bailey
RSP
2019
$9.00
$10.00
Mutual option for 2020

Relief and Closing Pitchers
PlayerPosition
Year
Contract
Ends
2014
Salary
(Millions)
2015
Salary
(Millions)/
Status
Comment
Aroldis Chapman
LCL
2014
$7.84
Arb.
Logan Ondrusek
RRP
2014
$1.45
Arb.
J.J. Hoover
RRP
2014
$0.52
?
Under control
Nick Christiani
RRP
2014
$0.50
?
Carlos Contreras
RRP
2014
$0.50
?
Under control
Jose Diaz
RRP
2014
$0.50
?
Under control
Sean Marshall
LRP
2015
$5.50
$6.50
Manny Parra
LRP
2015
$2.00
$3.50
Sam LeCure
RRP
2016
$1.20
$1.85

Starting Position Players
PlayerPosition
Year
Contract
Ends
2014
Salary
(Millions)
2015
Salary
(Millions)/
Status
Comment
Ryan Ludwick
LF
2014
$8.50
$9.00
Mutual option for 2015
Chris Heisey
LF
2014
$1.76
Arb.
Ramon Santiago
2B
2014
$1.10
FA
Jack Hannahan
1B
2014
$1.00
$4.00
Reds option for 2015
Zack Cozart
SS
2014
$0.60
Arb.

Todd Frazier
3B
2014
$0.60
Arb.

Devin Mesoraco
C
2014
$0.53
Arb.
Tucker Barnhart
C
2014
$0.50
?
Under control
Billy Hamilton
CF
2014
$0.50
?
Under control
Donald Lutz
1B
2014
$0.50
?
Under control
Jason Bourgeois
LF
2014
?
Arb.
Kris Negron
IF
2014
?
?
Under control
Brayan Pena
C
2015
$0.88
$1.40
Jay Bruce
RF
2016
$10.04
$12.04
Reds option for 2017
Skip Schumaker
IF/OF
2016
$2.00
$2.50
Brandon Phillips
2B
2017
$11.00
$12.00
Joey Votto
1B
2023
$12.00
$14.00
Reds option for 2024

Other Players
PlayerPosition
Year
Contract
Ends
2014
Salary
(Millions)
2015
Salary
(Millions)/
Status
Comment
Trevor Bell
RRP
2014
$0.50
Arb.

Carlos Contreras
RRP
2014
$0.50
?
Under control
Dylan Alexrod
RSP
2014
?
?
Under control
Daniel Corcino
RRP
2014
?
?
Under control
Ryan Dennick
LRP
2014
?
?
Under control
Juan Duran
OF
2014
?
?
Under control
Jake Elmore
OF
2014
?
?
Under control
Édgar González
RRP
2014
?
?
Under control
David Holmberg
LSP
2014
?
?
Under control
Curtis Partch
RRP
2014
?
?
Under control
Yorman Rodriguez
CF
2014
?
?
Under control
Netftali Soto
IF
2014
?
?
Under control
Pedro Villareal
RRP
2014
?
?
Under control
Raisel Iglesias
RSP
2020
$1.21
$1.71


Position Key
Note that many players play more than one position. For example, in 2014, Todd Frazier (3B) played first base as well as playing third base.
1B  First base
2B  Second base
3B  Third base
C  Catcher
CF  Center fielder
IF  Infielder
IF/OF  Infielder/outfielder
LCP  Left-handed closing pitcher
LF  Left fielder
LRP  Left-handed relief pitcher
LSP  Left-handed starting pitcher
OF  Outfielder
RRP  Right-handed relief pitcher
RSP  Right-handed starting pitcher
SS  Shortstop

Salary Abbreviations
?  I don't know the player's salary for 2014 and/or 2015.
Arb.  The player is eligible for arbitration in 2015.
FA  The player will be a free agent in 2015.

Sources
The original source for this information was Major League Baseball.
I used three web pages to compile these tables; one from The Cincinnati Enquirer and two from spotrac (first and second).
I am assuming that this information is in the public domain for non-commercial use.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Today is the second anniversary of this blog

Today marks the second anniversary of this blog with this being the 101st post. Google reports that I have had over 21,200 page views, which is a lot more than I expected. Set your expectations low, and you're more likely to meet them.

I started this blog so that I could post entries and not offend my Facebook friends. I was losing friends due to my posts and that stopped once I started posting away from Facebook.

So let's keep going with this. Originally, I wanted to post daily but I couldn't take the time to do that. I looks like I'm averaging one post per week, but I will try to increase that number over the next year.