hCINCINNATI -- Free agents are eligible to sign with new teams beginning on Friday afternoon. Despite a managerial interview process that consumed much of the past month, the Reds' front office has been preparing and strategizing for free agency decisions simultaneously.
"We started that work a while back, pressing out our interests in pending free agents," Reds president of baseball operations Dick Williams said. "We took a look at it by position, and who were the top guys and the guys we had interest in and who are the guys we can afford. We did a similar exercise for trade targets.