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

Player	Position	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

Player	Position	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

Player	Position	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

Player	Position	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.

Beaumont Bomber gets no love from hometown newspaper

On Tuesday, Sept. 17, Jay Bruce of the Cincinnati Reds hit a grand-slam home run at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. Did his hometown newspaper, the Beaumont Enterprise, even mention that he's from Beaumont? Nope, not a word. They just ran the Associated Press story of the game with no apparent additions. Sorry, Jay.

Incompetence in computer programming #1

This is 2013 but I still run into incompetent computer programming as if it were 1995 (the heyday of Microsoft and the sloppy coding practices that it both embraced and provided as a bad example to others). Here are four examples.

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Minnesota Public Radio: I wanted to make a nice comment about Corky Miller on this story published in 2005. On Aug. 10, I duly filled out the information and wrote a comment but when I clicked on "Post", I got this error: "Comments are not allowed on this entry."

MPR, if you're not going to allow comments on this story, then let me know on the article page, not as an error after I try to post!

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Apple: On Aug. 18, using Apple's own browser, Safari, on a Macintosh, this is what I saw at this page:

Yes, I have reported the error to Apple but no fix yet.

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Employee portal error: A certain Cincinnati employer (which I am not going to name) provides a portal for its employees to show their availability to work. Recently, I saw this error:

The error, in case you can't read it, is: "The following request error has occurred: String or binary data would be truncated. The statement has been terminated." The same error occurred in three different browsers, two on Macintosh and one on Windows so I'm concluding it happened on the server. I was told later what the error should have been: "Changes to availability must be submitted before the deadline. The deadline for start date 9/8/2013 is midnight Sunday 9/1/2013."

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Kenmore: This is a picture of the front of a 5,000 btu/hr. Kenmore air conditioner. The rightmost light is telling me that the filter needs to be cleaned. But the filter was cleaned several days ago and really doesn't need to be cleaned again. The incompetent computer programming: You can only reset the filter timer if the light is on. So when I pushed the button to reset the timer after cleaning the filter with the light out, nothing happened. Only now that the light is on can I reset the timer.

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That's all for now. I will add more posts as I run across ICP.

Remove the links to articles behind a paywall

To the Team Stream app team:

The Cincinnati Reds articles in the Dayton Daily News that Hal McCoy is tweeting about are behind a paywall and need to be removed. I have mentioned this before to no avail. This is the last notice. If this is not fixed by Monday, Aug. 19, I will remove Team Stream from my phone.

Bruce Hobbs
Norwood, Ohio, USA

Sent from my iPhone 4S.

(Edited to show that the source is Hal McCoy's tweets. They need to either tell Hal McCoy to not tweet about articles behind the paywall or remove Hal's tweets altogether. It's Team Stream's app, not mine, and it's not my job to check the content. No, I'm not going to pay for the Dayton Daily News. It's a fine newspaper, but I'm just not going to pay for it.)

Update Aug. 18: It appears that they've listened to us users. The one reference today to the Dayton Daily News has public access. I will be keeping the Team Stream app on my phone. Success!

Update Aug. 20: I celebrated too soon. The tweets from "Hal" (probably done by someone else under his name) are back linking to stories behind the paywall. But instead of removing Team Stream from my phone, I've just unselected the Cincinnati Reds from Team Stream. I will get my Reds information other ways.

Nice profile of DatDudeBP

Cincinnati Magazine is running a great profile on DatDudeBP (otherwise known as Brandon Phillips, second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds). Phillips said some controversial things in that article, which I'm not going to repeat verbatim here, but I will give you a run down on the controversy. Note that this is one sided; the magazine apparently didn't ask or didn't get a response from the team.

To understand the situation, you need to go back to the 2012 season. Phillips was going to become a free agent at the end of the season while teammate Joey Votto (first baseman for the Reds) had two years remaining on his contract. According to Phillips, Reds management talked to Votto before talking to Phillips. The result was a contract extension offer of $225 million over 10 years which Votto accepted. Then they went to Phillips and offered him a six-year deal worth $72.5 million which he accepted.

On the face of this, it looks like Votto is getting paid a lot more than Phillips. For me, to compare these salaries fairly, I need to determine the actual salaries for this year and the next two years. I found two sources for this, which agree on the base salaries: Baseball Player Salaries and Sports Contracts.

Player	2013	2014	2015	Total
Brandon Phillips	$10M	$11M	$12M	$33M
Joey Votto	$17M	$12M	$14M	$43M

Looking at it this way, things don't look so lopsided. Also note that Votto is taking a pay cut next year; Phillips isn't. I don't know if Votto is worth $10 million more than Phillips over three years or not but I think Phillips' outrage is misplaced.