The Baltimore Orioles Are Interested In Frankie Montas & Nick Martinez

It wasn’t even 7 months ago, Cincinnati Reds fans were all excited. We were signing pitching left and right after another year of coming up short late in the year due to a massive hole. The Front Office actually addressed it. And now here we are. Once again…sellers. Should we lobby to change the team name to Cincinnati Cellars? Or will Cincinnati Sellers do, too? Anyways, whatever. Let’s get into why you’re here to read this. The Baltimore Orioles are interested in some of our expiring assets.

Frankie Montas & Nick Martinez

Jon Morosi posted yesterday that the Baltimore Orioles had expressed interest in these two players that the Cincinnati Reds signed this previous offseason – The Reds were taking a huge gamble with Montas and he’s been relatively dogdoo, just keeping it a band. Those 20 wins he was going to win himself? Yeah, that’s not happening.

We know, through an O’s reporter, that the Cincinnati Reds had sent scouts to the Orioles’ A level team to scout several players, so we’re going to insist that the Reds want at least ONE player from that level, and I think I may know exactly who that is because he fits, so well, what the Reds enamor themselves over year in and year out.

Make no mistake, folks…the Cincinnati Reds signed Frankie Montas & Nick Martinez both knowing it was unlikely they held onto them for a long period of time. These two were signed, essentially, to either work out, or they were going to trade. EVERY team knows this. The Reds know this. So long story short, these two won’t be pulling back anything significant when it comes to trade…they’re also very expensive.

Package We Can Expect To See

Cincinnati Reds Receive:

OF Braylin Tavera

RHP Juan Nuñez

Baltimore Orioles Receive:

RHP Nick Martinez

RHP Frankie Montas

In this package, the Baltimore Orioles would owe the remaining contracts of Nick Martinez AND Frankie Montas, respectively. For Frankie Montas, that’d be around $10M, for Nick Martinez, that’ll be about $7M. The Baltimore Orioles would be taking advantage of the expiring contracts while making their team better utilizing prospect capital they can afford to lose without questioning future. The Cincinnati Reds would be receiving players that make sense for them due to projectability & the fact that they will be shedding payroll, almost $17M retained by dealing these players. The O’s have new ownership and seem likely they’d be willing to fork over some cash to obtain players.