Non-tender deadline is tonight. Here is who we have to make decisions on. Most seem obvious.
Shane Greene
Mike Foltynewicz
Charlie Culberson
Johan Camargo
John Ryan Murphy
Adam Duvall
Luke Jackson
Grant Dayton
Dansby Swanson
Mark Bowman just tweeted this. Umm what!?
It sounds like the Braves may non-tender Charlie Culberson before tonight's deadline. This would not be a popular decision. Culberson's value would seemingly be increased next year when the 26-man rosters are put in place.
JohnAdcox (12-02-2019)
UNCBlue012 (12-02-2019), zbhargrove (12-02-2019)
Culberson has been insanely lucky the last 2 seasons offensively with by far the highest wOBA-xwOBA delta of all Braves position players. His xwOBA of .274 is probably more predictive of his future offensive potential than the .326 wOBA he has actually posted the last 2 seasons.
Here are MLBTR's projections for arb salaries:
Shane Greene – $6.5MM
Mike Foltynewicz – $7.5MM
Charlie Culberson – $1.8MM
Adam Duvall – $3.8MM
John Ryan Murphy – $1.2MM
Dansby Swanson – $3.3MM
Luke Jackson – $1.9MM
Grant Dayton – $800K
Johan Camargo – $1.6MM
For approximately the same cash, the Braves can likely replace Culberson with Hech and get a better bat and a better defender.
I wouldn't be shocked either way to see Camargo/Culberson stay or go, but I suspect they will both stay. The minor improvements at those bench spots probably isn't worth the fallout from dumping those seemingly popular players.
jpx7 (12-02-2019)
Braves have non-tendered Culberson
Get off my lawn!
Could certainly replace Charlie fairly easily. But for the price, I'm partial to the mentality "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
jpx7 (12-02-2019)
Camargo can't be the primary backup plan at SS in case Swanson is out for an extended period. Someone like Hech is probably acquired.
Fans on fb are going nuts that Culberson was non tendered. At that price point I would of kept him. Maybe they turn around and resign him.