Nick Martinez will wear a Cincinnati Reds uniform for at least a decent portion of the 2025 season. That’s now a fact, as he became the lone MLB player this winter who was given a Qualifying Offer from his 2024 club and chose to accept.
He’ll earn a hefty, yet deserved $21.05 million for the 2025 season. While that’s precisely the amount of cash it would have taken in 2025 for the Reds to try to land a pitcher of his caliber elsewhere in free agency, that’s already pushing their payroll for this year into the same ballpark where last year’s stood.