Official 2022 Offseason Moves Thread

[Enscheff]

Why not both Olson and Freeman? Olson has played OF in the past (not a lot) and there is a DH too so you can fit his bat in the lineup somewhere...

Back to your cave pretending to manage people please. With ideas like this I'm glad decisions about people's careers aren't really in your hands.

[sturg33]

Back to your cave pretending to manage people please. With ideas like this I'm glad decisions about people's careers aren't really in your hands.

lol you're so adorable

[clvclv]

Why can't he talk to Rizzo? I agree about Freeman though, enough is enough. Either sign him or announce you are moving on

Teams are not allowed to negotiate with free-agents once the lockout begins at midnight tonight.

The likelihood is that physicals and tests can't be completed and final contract wording pinned down before then at this point, so chances are every free-agent that wanted to sign before the lockout has already signed. Everyone else waited too long. That's why most deals had to be completed by yesterday.

[Enscheff]

lol you're so adorable

What's adorable is a project manager creating charts about the work of others thinking they are somehow in charge of those people.

[sturg33]

What's adorable is a project manager creating charts about the work of others thinking they are somehow in charge of those people.

Product manager =/= Project Manager

Don't be so jealous little guy!

[clvclv]

Such a meaningless response from the one who consistently poses worthless and impossible diatribes. Unless your glasses need replacement the word plus is there for consideration. Swanson and Olson are the key components but just look a bit farther down the line and maybe AA takes Andrus back, maybe Oakland could use Contreras since they lost Gomes. Maybe Pache could fill Canha's spot. Etc, Etc.

And you simply prove why your ideas are consistently ridiculous. Read about other teams and their situations once in a while.

Oakland has said clearly that they're cutting salary - replacing Olson's with Dansby's accomplishes absolutely nothing. They're not going to contend for anything in 2022 other than a high draft pick. To begin with, they don't NEED a SS - they're stuck with Andrus for one more year (the same period they'd have Dansby if they were stupid enough to take him), they already owe him $7.25 million and no one will take him off their hands. In your scenario, they'd pay $18.35 million in 2022 to have one of those SSs on the bench since Tony Kemp is their 2B and leadoff hitter - and they still won't have a SS in 2023.

They already have Sean Murphy behind the plate, and their top prospect is Tyler Soderstrom. Soderstrom is probably athletic enough to move to 3B, but Contreras isn't good enough defensively to get them to try to do that. Langeliers is, but you didn't mention him.

They have Ramon Laureano in CF and control him for 3 more years. He's going to miss the first month as he finishes serving his PED suspension, but he's a *elluva lot better hitter than Pache's shown signs of becoming.

This is just another in the long line of examples of you thinking somebody else will take the Braves' trash for their treasure. The market for Olson is huge, but you somehow think they'll trade him here for pennies on the dollar. They're trying to build their next playoff team, and the three names you mentioned have absolutely no chance of being part of that OR being used in other trades to get them pieces that will. That is the textbook definition of a stupid trade offer.

[PawPawMaxwell]

Do you really miss your days as a blogger??

Im not the one who checked in with the As GM. If he didnt have what it needs to get a player (any payer) like Olson why did he bother asking? Beane doesnt like the ones I threw out then who do you suggest he will ask AA for? Whomever they have to come from surplus.

[clvclv]

I assume the Braves have the medicals on Freeman already as opposed to bringing in someone else

You'd hope they'd have already worked that part out ahead of this point in case they were able to come to terms today, but I'm skeptical that they have. If word of that leaked, it would certainly reduce the leverage Freddie's agents have with other clubs. Other GMs would be able to say "he's already taken his physical and you just have to iron out contract language - you're just using me to try to milk a few more dollars or another year from the Braves".

[SJ24]

Back to your cave pretending to manage people please. With ideas like this I'm glad decisions about people's careers aren't really in your hands.

LOL. I agree with Sturg.

We should try to sign as many good players as possible.

[SJ24]

I hope we sign Correa too.

It's not my money.

Flags do fly forever. I can't wait to point out last year's flag to my children some day.

[clvclv]

Do you really miss your days as a blogger??

Im not the one who checked in with the As GM. If he didnt have what it needs to get a player (any payer) like Olson why did he bother asking? Beane doesnt like the ones I threw out then who do you suggest he will ask AA for? Whomever they have to come from surplus.

The more pertinent question would be whether you'd ever heard of any of the other names I mentioned?

[Garmel]

LOL. I agree with Sturg.

We should try to sign as many good players as possible.

True, but after signing Freddie and being stuck with Ozuna I doubt we have the cash to add Olson.

[sturg33]

True, but after signing Freddie and being stuck with Ozuna I doubt we have the cash to add Olson.

Can't we just print more like the fed?

[PawPawMaxwell]

So you send me Olson and Andrus for Swanson and Pache plus whomever and you dont save any money, have better production at SS and have a top whatever prospect by some reasoning and thats not good enough for a rebuilding team?

Maybe not. Im not a GM, not a blogger, dont really give a crap about Oakland, simply killing time til April. BTW hows the real estate business? Lake James hasnt turned into a mudhole has it?

[Garmel]

Can't we just print more like the fed?

I wish!

[thewupk]

Can't we just print more like the fed?

I tried but the dollar store wouldn't accept it

[Enscheff]

Product manager =/= Project Manager

Don't be so jealous little guy!

LOL, product manager...even less in charge of anyone.

So pathetic.

[Garmel]

I tried but the dollar store wouldn't accept it

Did Cy's mom accept it?

[mfree80]

Can't we just print more like the Dodgers?

FIFY

[msstate7]

I don't see why everyone is so down on ozuna... here's his xwoba for last 4 years...

2018: .354
2019: .368
2020: .435
2021: .345

Here's soler...
2018: .346
2019: .389
2020: .349
2021: .354

Aren't the basically the same hitter?