This shouldn’t come as a surprise to just about anyone who has been following the Cincinnati Reds at any point in the last 35 years or so, but it would appear that 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer is out of the price range for the Reds.Jon Heyman of MLB Network is reporting that Bauer is “too expensive for the Reds” and that “he will be pitching elsewhere next year”.
After trading for Bauer at the trade deadline in 2019, he struggled in his transition to the National League. Perhaps it was because he was asked to swing a bat, because in 2020 when the league implemented the designated hitter he took his game to the next level (of course, it may also be because he “magically” found about 400 extra RPM on his pitches, too).