Cincinnati Reds' Dick Williams talks payrolls, rotation, Garcia, Stephenson and more

Cincinnati Reds President of Baseball Operations Dick Williams addressed all the big questions going into the season in a 31-minute Zoom press conference on Friday.

The biggest news was Williams said he expects Reds Manager David Bell and the rest of the coaching staff to return, but he hit on other topics as well. Here are the highlights:

Do you expect the payroll to go up or down?

“Unfortunately, as you go into next year, I think we’re all still dealing with some very large unknowns,” Williams said. “We all thought that, by now, we might have more visibility than we in fact do. It’s really hard to know exactly where we’ll stack up from an economic perspective without having a little more…