Official 2024 Off-Season Thread!

[ixiXSolidXixi]

I like Pablo López since his days with the Marlins. Another player Shane McClanahan but his out for the whole 2024.

[striker42]

Any ideas? You’ve narrowed it down somewhat.

The guy who fits my scenario best is Mitch Keller. He's got 3 years of control left, solid K rate, and throws pretty hard. He fits the kind of pitcher AA would target.

The question is whether the Pirates would trade him. He's arb eligible so he's going to get expensive pretty quick. I think the Pirates would want young, major league ready talent back. Elder and Grissom fit that description.

[Hudson2]

Honestly how many good young SP with years of team control are even out there to begin with. I will be surprised if we add a big name SP at this point. We don't need one to win the division. So I think we go into the season with what we have and see how that shakes out. Maybe grab someone at the trade deadline. Our farm will have an additional half year to develop. Maybe AJSS lights it up and we don't feel the pressure to add. Maybe it's Waldrep. Maybe some other prospects shine and we can trade them. Baseball is a funny sport. AJSS and Waldrep could both be in the rotation by the trade deadline.

I could see a Lugo signing bc he’s so versatile. But AA probably thinks the same way in that AJSS and Waldrep could both be ready by the break and ready to help out. I’m sure he’s talked with the White Sox and they want a haul from everybody and AA doesn’t wanna trade either one of them and probably shouldn’t.

[Hudson2]

The guy who fits my scenario best is Mitch Keller. He's got 3 years of control left, solid K rate, and throws pretty hard. He fits the kind of pitcher AA would target.

The question is whether the Pirates would trade him. He's arb eligible so he's going to get expensive pretty quick. I think the Pirates would want young, major league ready talent back. Elder and Grissom fit that description.

The Pirates are always in cut spending mode it seems like. Haven’t thought about Keller. Interesting.

[Super]

The guy who fits my scenario best is Mitch Keller. He's got 3 years of control left, solid K rate, and throws pretty hard. He fits the kind of pitcher AA would target.

The question is whether the Pirates would trade him. He's arb eligible so he's going to get expensive pretty quick. I think the Pirates would want young, major league ready talent back. Elder and Grissom fit that description.

I’d be stoked to acquire Keller. He’s not a sure thing though and I’d bet the cost is still relatively high. He’s a sneaky maybe legitimate target though. I could see it.

[striker42]

I’d be stoked to acquire Keller. He’s not a sure thing though and I’d bet the cost is still relatively high. He’s a sneaky maybe legitimate target though. I could see it.

Yeah. If he's even available he'd be expensive in terms of talent. But he'd be a big upgrade to the rotation and seems like the kind of pitcher AA would target.

[zbhargrove]

Well, that's not an implication of anything because Ohtani is not a position player.

It would make tremendous sense if we want to win ball games and be THE story in MLB.

lol dude Ohtani is not coming to the Braves. This is a silly post. Won’t help us win games when the salary becomes an albatross. The only way is if he agrees to a high per year value for 2 years to prove he can pitch again… but sounds like he already has plenty of huge decade plus offers out there so it ain’t happening. Thank God too if that’s the case. There’s a reason why none of these teams giving out record contracts ever win anything of significance.

[50PoundHead]

The guy who fits my scenario best is Mitch Keller. He's got 3 years of control left, solid K rate, and throws pretty hard. He fits the kind of pitcher AA would target.

The question is whether the Pirates would trade him. He's arb eligible so he's going to get expensive pretty quick. I think the Pirates would want young, major league ready talent back. Elder and Grissom fit that description.

I caught a couple of national games in 2023 with Keller pitching. He was lights-out early in the season and then tailed off a bit. Hard to know what the Pirates will do. They have a nice set of younger players, some of whom were rushed to the majors, but they are probably a good year or two away from making real noise.

[UNCBlue012]

BREAKING: The New York Yankees are acquiring outfielder Alex Verdugo in a trade with the Boston Red Sox for right-handeres Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert and Nicholas Judice, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN.

[striker42]

BREAKING: The New York Yankees are acquiring outfielder Alex Verdugo in a trade with the Boston Red Sox for right-handeres Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert and Nicholas Judice, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN.

Yankee-Red Sox trade? Does this mean Verdugonis about to start on his quest to become the next HR king?

[CyYoung31]

BREAKING: The New York Yankees are acquiring outfielder Alex Verdugo in a trade with the Boston Red Sox for right-handeres Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert and Nicholas Judice, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN.

That sounds like an NBA trade. One okay player for a bunch of bodies.

[CyYoung31]

Btw, my mom is a big fan of Richard Fitts.

[UNCBlue012]

Btw, my mom is a big fan of Richard Fitts.

I'm sure the Dick does Fitts.

[Enscheff]

Good to see folks resorting to arguing semantics to keep the glimmer of hope alive for Ohtani. Pretty funny actually.

An actual interesting thing that happened is the Yankees trade for Verdugo for a low end BP arm, a 40 FV SP prospect, and another prospect that isn’t on the FG lists. That’s what AA passed on for Kelenic, so we can use him as a good gauge for the results of that move.

[50PoundHead]

Good to see folks resorting to arguing semantics to keep the glimmer of hope alive for Ohtani. Pretty funny actually.

An actual interesting thing that happened is the Yankees trade for Verdugo for a low end BP arm, a 40 FV SP prospect, and another prospect that isn’t on the FG lists. That’s what AA passed on for Kelenic, so we can use him as a good gauge for the results of that move.

I wonder who the comps in our system would be for the guys the Yankees sent to the Red Sox.

[thewupk]

Braves get the 24th pick in 2024. Mets fall all the way to 19th. lmao

[CJ9]

Marco Gonzales and cash to the Pirates for a PTBNL.

[drewdat]

Where is Brian Reynolds even going to fit for us?

[UNCBlue012]

Marco Gonzales and cash to the Pirates for a PTBNL.

as long as we didn’t send them much lol

[CJ9]

Really hoping we can get a report on how much money we sent with Gonzales.