The 2021 World Series begins this evening, and once again the invitation for the Cincinnati Reds must have been lost in the mail. What’s of relevance for them, though, is that the 2021 MLB season will be over within the next week or so, and the routine offseason administrative decisions will begin within a handful of days after that.
The players who will be free agents after the season will officially become free agents. Players with options and opt-out clauses will make their final calls. Players who were injured and on injured lists will be placed back onto the 40-man roster, all of which will set the baseline for the rest of the subjective, non-objective decisions the Reds will have to make for the rest of the Hot Stove season.