The Cincinnati Reds are a staff in dire want of some further firepower as they enter the 2025 MLB commerce deadline.
Sitting in third place in an extremely aggressive NL Central, the Reds are 8.5 video games again from the Milwaukee Brewers however solely two video games behind the Chicago Cubs, with an opportunity to sneak into the playoffs and make some waves underneath the postseason lights if every part breaks their manner.
However what occurs if, after dropping their final two video games to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Reds get swept and lose out on Eugenio Suarez, the power-hitting prize of this 12 months’s deadline? Nicely, in line with ESPN’s Buster Olney, the staff has contingency plans, six of them to be actual.
“The Cincinnati Reds are among the many groups who’ve been in touch with the Diamondbacks about Eugenio Suarez,” Olney wrote. ‘But when Arizona finds a deal elsewhere with the excessive value set on the slugger, the Reds might nicely pivot to a different third baseman available on the market — Gio Ushela of the A’s, Isiah Kiner-Falefa of the Pirates, one of many Mets’ infielders (Brett Baty, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos), and so forth.”
Now, whereas it could be good to see Suarez make the journey again east from Arizona to Ohio, since he did play for the staff from 2015-2021 after being acquired with Jonathon Crawford for Alfredo Simón, as one of many premier residence run hitters in all of baseball, his companies unquestionably will not come low cost. Whereas solely time will inform if any of these different gamers will likely be obtainable both, because the Mets usually tend to be consumers than sellers as they make a powerful push for their very own deep playoff push, the truth that the Reds stay keen on shopping for as an alternative of promoting regardless of their document is an efficient signal that they continue to be dedicated to constructing a winner, as an alternative of pivoting to asset acquisition mode.