While the red and black confetti from the Winter Meetings is still settling, let’s take a look at where the Reds payroll stands.
PLAYERS ALREADY UNDER CONTRACT
These are the players with spending commitments established in guaranteed contracts as negotiated between the player and organization. The number represents salaries plus prorated signing bonuses, in millions of dollars, rounded to the nearest tenth. The data comes from Cot’s Baseball Contracts.
PLAYERS UNDER ARBITRATION
Based on the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, players who have accumulated three years of service time are entitled to an arbitration process to determine their salary.