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    Braves on verge of acquiring interim OF

    https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/...utfielder.html

    1) Confirms Acuna won't open at the MLB level and 2) seems like a depth / short term move - not going to be an impact player from the sound of it

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramadon101 View Post
    https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/...utfielder.html

    1) Confirms Acuna won't open at the MLB level and 2) seems like a depth / short term move - not going to be an impact player from the sound of it
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    lol it's chris stewart (the catcher).

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    This was the depth move mentioned earlier. I mistakenly heard “outfielder” when Anthopoulos first mentioned it.

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    Does this mean payroll is going to be $130M??

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    Hahah...What a joke that was.

    We already have Rob Brantley, Kade Scivique, and Tyler Marlette why even bother with Chris Stewart?

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    Hilarious. Enscheff is right- the team has no money left. Even if Mous were to fall significantly, I doubt this team has the current resources to pull anything off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    Hahah...What a joke that was.

    We already have Rob Brantley, Kade Scivique, and Tyler Marlette why even bother with Chris Stewart?
    Probably to help soak up all the free payroll you think they have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramadon101 View Post
    Hilarious. Enscheff is right- the team has no money left. Even if Mous were to fall significantly, I doubt this team has the current resources to pull anything off.
    Shhhhhh...

    We can't admit I've been right for the last 4 months. Someone will come in with an explanation about why none of this means the Braves are broke.

    Yadda yadda Battery yadda yadda revenue increased yadda yadda they don't want to spend now yadda yadda I'm glad they aren't signing anyone yadda yadda $50M in Disney money yadda yadda.

    Yearly attendance of 2.5 million allows for a $110M+ payroll. Period.

    It doesn't matter what kind of faux-accounting folks want to indulge in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    Probably to help soak up all the free payroll you think they have.
    Whoa now. I'm not involved in whatever payroll thing you have going on.

    The number I said in the beginning was $120M. I still think that's what we have. We're just going to use it to pay off Kazmir's deffered money and keep a few mil in reserve in case we're actually worthy of picking up a mid-season acquisition.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    lol it's chris stewart (the catcher).

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    This was the depth move mentioned earlier. I mistakenly heard “outfielder” when Anthopoulos first mentioned it.
    Our beloved beat writer hard at work.

    The sound of his chewing probably interfered with his hearing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    Whoa now. I'm not involved in whatever payroll thing you have going on.

    The number I said in the beginning was $120M. I still think that's what we have. We're just going to use it to pay off Kazmir's deffered money and keep a few mil in reserve in case we're actually worthy of picking up a mid-season acquisition.
    Haha, my mistake...and apologies!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    Hahah...What a joke that was.

    We already have Rob Brantley, Kade Scivique, and Tyler Marlette why even bother with Chris Stewart?
    so we can have deep depth at catcher in the upper minors
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    Not sure why they needed to make this move or why this has anything to do with how much money they have to spend, but at least it was briefly interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    Shhhhhh...

    We can't admit I've been right for the last 4 months. Someone will come in with an explanation about why none of this means the Braves are broke.

    Yadda yadda Battery yadda yadda revenue increased yadda yadda they don't want to spend now yadda yadda I'm glad they aren't signing anyone yadda yadda $50M in Disney money yadda yadda.

    Yearly attendance of 2.5 million allows for a $110M+ payroll. Period.

    It doesn't matter what kind of faux-accounting folks want to indulge in.
    If the Braves are counting on attendance of 3 million plus to get the payroll to an acceptable level, then we're screwed regardless of what happens on the field. With the smaller capacity, to draw 3 million fans they'll have to average selling 90% of the tickets for every game. They had a hard time doing that when the Braves were winning division titles every year.

    Reducing capacity only makes sense if each seat removed reduces variable costs (highly unlikely - fixed costs are the main problem), or if it involves replacing regular seats with suites or other premium, high-revenue areas. And if the latter is the chosen path, then the team should take that into account for annual budgeting purposes. If they're not, and if they're using below-expected attendance as an excuse to keep payroll down, they're being disingenuous.

    Either way, barring a surprise last minute deal, you were dead-on in calling this scenario, when many others including myself believed (or at least hoped) that the team would somehow find a pot o' gold somewhere in the retail development that would save the day.

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    Thing to consider, it's a non-guaranteed deal
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    Quote Originally Posted by blueagleace1 View Post
    Thing to consider, it's a non-guaranteed deal
    My sources say it’s bc we aren’t sure if we have enough money to pay him

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    Hahah...What a joke that was.

    We already have Rob Brantley, Kade Scivique, and Tyler Marlette why even bother with Chris Stewart?
    So he can be this year's Anthony Recker(all 6 games worth)

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