From Boddy's interview this week:
"In June of 2020, Major League Baseball announced that the minor league season would be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many teams during this time laid off coaches and took away stipends from minor league players. The Reds were one of the few teams that did not.
"The Reds chose to pay the minor league players' stipend during COVID before almost any organization, and they didn't fire any coaches," Boddy told me. "Many other organizations worth much more than the Reds fired coaches, furloughed them, got out of the contracts, and they just didn't do that…I always like telling that story because the Castellinis were always supportive of our coaches and scouts."
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That really is something not to be discounted.
But I thought the the owners were cheap money grubbers who don’t care about the team? /s
This is really nice to hear
This backs up what I’ve been saying for years. The Castellinis (and the ownership group as a whole) aren’t stingy so much as they just don’t have massive wealth outside the value of the team. They’re millionaires trying to compete in a billionaire’s game, but they’re still trying to be good stewards of the franchise and taking care of their people. You’d never hear of Bob Nutting or John Fisher doing something like this.
Another common Castellini W
Well that’s where all our money went!!!
the issue is they’re rich to normal people…. but in reality they’re not actually rich. 400 million net worth is baby rich, 20% ownership of the team is probably one of the smallest ownerships in all of baseball. same issue with the bengals, when the majority of your net worth is property and the franchise you own, you don’t have as much cash to guarantee as other owners… granted the bengals could have that money…. the brown family just refuses to move assets for the team.