The Reds inked Felipe Lopez to one year, $2.7 million dollar and the Reds and Lopez will avoid arbitration. The Reds are getting a bargain here if Felipe Lopez does as well as he did in 2005. .291/.352/.486 isn’t too shabby, and he did it over 580 at bats. The Reds were looking to pay him $2.15 million while Lopez’s arbitration claim was for $3 million.

That leaves the future Hall of Famer, Adam Dunn, as the sole remaining arbitration case. Dunn is asking for $8.95 million and the Reds are looking to give him $7.1 million, so they’re pretty far apart.

The Reds also signed reliever Rick White this week. Another cheap arm in the pen, White will make $600k this season. This is one those “blah, WTF” signings. White managed a decent ERA, but his batting average against was a whopping .308, which isn’t what you want to see when you’re trying to strand inherited runners. His strikeout rate has also been in a state of decline.

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