Originally Posted by
rico43
This is hardly rationalizing, but it seems to be on the mark that Maitan's early returns have not come close to matching the outlook. He's gotten bigger and thicker faster than anyone would have guessed and is already an inadequate shortstop. Bat was nothing thrilling.
I'm much more upset at losing Gutierrez and Severino. Guessing that there are 2-3 future major leaguers in the FA group, nothing more.
Will be very curious is any of them settle for smaller bonuses than what Braves paid out.