"When the Reds declined the $12 million club option on Francisco Cordero, it gave the veteran closer a chance to explore the free-agent market. Of course, it meant that Cincinnati could do likewise.

There are a lot of closers and ex-closers on the free-agent market this offseason, including Ryan Madson, Heath Bell, Joe Nathan, Brad Lidge, Jonathan Broxton and Francisco Rodriguez.

According to his representative, that hasn't appeared to curb suitors for Cordero.

"We've had probably seven or eight teams inquire with interest, a couple of more since [Jonathan] Papelbon's deal," Cordero's agent, Bean Stringfellow, said on Monday. "It's all ongoing and it's still early. "