Every year at this time, our good friends at Royals Review host a GM Simulation, cobbling together representatives from all 30 SB Nation MLB team blogs to act like they’re in charge of their respective franchise and its decision making. For three days, we condense the entire offseason into one big email chain of transactions, from non-tenders to trades to massive free agent spending.
Honestly, it’s become one of my favorite offseason endeavors. Given an estimated budget, we get to not only try to make the moves we think would best suit the real Reds, we also get to find out just how difficult it is to actually, y’know, make those moves happen.