{"id":502849,"date":"2026-01-09T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:38:10","slug":"reds-avoid-arbitration-with-10-but-fail-to-reach-deals-with-stephenson-ashcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502849\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds avoid arbitration with 10 but fail to reach deals with Stephenson, Ashcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; The Reds have reached an agreement with right-handed starting pitcher Brady Singer on a $12.75 million salary for the 2026 season, one of 10 Cincinnati players to avoid arbitration this offseason. The team failed to reach agreements with catcher Tyler Stephenson and right-handed reliever Graham Ashcraft ahead of the deadline, meaning the two are likely headed for a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Per MLB. com reporter Mark Feinsand, Stephenson requested $6.8M and the Reds countered with $6.55M, while Ashcraft wanted $1.75M and the Reds submitted $1.25M.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements, with the projected amount followed by the reported deals:<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OF Will Benson: $1.7M &#8211; $1.725M <\/li>\n<li>OF TJ Friedl: $4.9M &#8211; $3.8M<\/li>\n<li>LHP Nick Lodolo: $4.3M &#8211; $4.725M<\/li>\n<li>IF\/OF Gavin Lux: $5M &#8211; $5.25M <\/li>\n<li>IF Matt McLain: $2.6M &#8211; $2.3M <\/li>\n<li>LHP Sam Moll: $875K <\/li>\n<li>C Ben Rortvedt: $1.25M<\/li>\n<li>RHP Tony Santillan: $2.4M &#8211; $1.8M<\/li>\n<li>RHP Brady Singer: $11.9M &#8211; $12.75M<\/li>\n<li>IF\/OF Spencer Steer: $4.5M &#8211; $4M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; The Reds have reached an agreement with right-handed starting pitcher Brady Singer on a $12.75&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-502849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115863060709638216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}