The Cincinnati Reds made a high money signing on the international market yesterday. Steve touched on it last night here at Redleg Nation. I wrote about it over at my site as well. The team reportedly agreed to terms with Cuban shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez for a $6M signing bonus, which turns into somewhere between $11-12M after paying the penalty for going over their allowed amount. It will also keep them from spending more than $300,000 on any single signing in the next two signing periods. But, that isn’t the point of this article.
The point of the article is the Reds seemingly chasing down a bunch of players, or having faith in players who seem to lack any ability to hit the ball over the fence but are very fast.