As the Cincinnati Reds have delved deeper into the analytics side of baseball, they hired some real-life math majors. That will come in handy this offseason because what the club faces is essentially a math problem, i.e., how to get the most out the player payroll.
Payroll is a factor every offseason, but it paramount this offseason because the Reds plan to be players on the free-agent market.
“We certainly feel like the window is open,” Dick Williams, the Reds’ president of baseball operations, told Bobby Nightengale of The Enquirer.