Cueto trusts for new arrangement

The 20-diversion victor knows the Cincinnati Reds may not have any desire to pay him the going rate for a No. 1 starter, leaving his status in uncertainty as camp opens. Cueto is in the last year of his agreement, making $10 million. On the off chance that the sides don't achieve an understanding, Cueto could be exchanged at middle of the season or leave as a free specialists thereafter. 

 The 29-year-old is among the best in the majors, placing him in position to get a major ordeal. Since 2010, he's gone 65-32 with a 2.73 ERA.

The sides have discussed an expansion, yet nothing is unavoidable.

"I need to stay here," Cueto said Thursday with coach Tomas Vera deciphering. "Genuine, I'd like to have an agreement before spring preparing closures. Be that as it may whatever I can do is play. As of right now, I simply need to continue buckling down and let them work it out."

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The Reds cleared some room on their payroll by exchanging starters Mat Latos and Alfredo Simon in the offseason. Last February, the Reds gave starter Homer Bailey a six-year, $105 million arrangement. Cueto can expect a much greater arrangement.

"He knows we admire him and need him to be here long haul," supervisor Bryan Price said on Thursday, before the Reds held their first workout for pitchers and catchers. "He has earned the privilege to be one of the top-level paid pitchers."

Cueto went 20-9 last season, getting his twentieth win on the last day. His RBI single set up a 4-1 triumph over Pittsburgh at Great American Ball Park and gave the Reds' best minute in an overall baffling season. Cueto turned into the first Reds pitcher to win 20 recreations since Danny Jackson in 1988 and the first Reds right-hander since Sammy Ellis and Jim Maloney destroyed it 1965.

"To be a pro, you have to have the general capacity to effect the group," Price said. "He must be the gentleman that reliably gets you to the over of the warm up area. When he pitches, you never feel like you're off guard. In the second a large portion of the season, when we hit the slips, he was all the while extraordinary. It was too pitched of a season as I've ever seen."

For examination, the Nationals gave Max Scherzer a seven-year, $210 million arrangement in the offseason. Scherzer went 21-3 with a 2.90 ERA in 2013, emulated by 18-5 with a 3.15 ERA last season for Detroit.

"Bravo," Cueto said, when gotten some information about Scherzer's agreement. "I don't recognize what will happen with me. I can't let you know."

NOTES: Bailey isn't diverting from the hill yet. He's recouping from surgery last September to repair a ligament tear in his pitching elbow. ... Left-gave reliever Sean Marshall is as yet recouping from shoulder surgery last June 24 and isn't prepared to pitch. Marshall showed up last season before having surgery. He's 5-6 with a 3.27 ERA in 104 help appearances amid three seasons with Cincinnati.