Just spend a while running down the list of 2019 free agents that is being heralded as so dang deep. While there's no telling what the money will look like in lieu of a) the grievance and b) Altuve getting a $30 per year extension, I could only come up with two logical moves the Braves should and could make.

1) Craig Kimbrel. No brainer. Braves have already shown their hand.

2) Manny Machado. He will get crazy money, but if I am the Braves, and considering he's only 25, I might go eight years and well north of $200 million. But I still don't think they get him. If not, then the much-discussed Josh Donaldson figures to be on the table. But I am projecting Machado at shortstop and Swanson as a failed project.

3) As far as starting pitchers go, I'd rather they extend Julio that sign one.

Of course, it's early. But I'm bored.