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The title is more upsetting than the article. At least O"Brien leaves open talk of multi-year contracts. It sounds to me like they want to get some kind of guage as to what the player will be valued at and then open talks for multi-year deals from there.

But then again, O'Brien is just an idiot. They get the money but make stupid idiotic signings...... Wilson? Milton? Randa? trading for Ortiz? D'Angelo Jimenez? Larue (ok, he's good defensively and may become an offensive power.... but $3,000,000?????)

Getting rid of Randa, Graves, Casey did open up a lot of salary that can be used for Dunn and Pena or maybe a true pitcher or 2.

I just think O'Brien is in over his head in Cincy. And what is scary is if he is doing the Randa/Ortiz/Milton/Wilson/Jimenez deals what kind of talent evaluator is he and where is he taking the farm system, hopefully he can draft better than he can sign MLB talent.

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