Baseball fans love to look at numbers as they speculate about the upcoming season. What if the Reds were to sign D.J. LeMahieu, who batted .364, or Marcell Ozuna, who batted .338?
The numbers that matter the most this off-season, unfortunately, are the revenue and expense projections for 2021 coming from the team’s business office. The team does not reveal those numbers, since they are not publicly traded, so we don’t know precisely what Owner Bob Castellini and his executive team have decided upon. But we can put some perspective on what is going on behind closed doors on Joe Nuxhall Way, and this may help to shape our expectations for player movement this off-season.