Right now, the bench is pretty LH heavy with Lamb/Kipnis/Ender. Could obviously use a RH OF there, Puig makes the most sense of the available options. Regarding Bradley, he clearly over-estimated his market. Guessing he returns to Boston on a 1 year deal, and re-hits the market next year with more money available.
Heyman said Braves made a run at Trevor Rosenthal, so adding a RH RP is also on the docket. Bringing back Shane Greene would make some sense. Other than Chris Martin, the current RP options are ehhh.
Team did not seem to have much confidence in Greene last year.
Puig has a domestic violence issue right? Plus he’s a reverse splits guy. I don’t see him on the team.
Maybe aa just waits for someone to shake loose in spring training.
Still can’t believe we haven’t seen more salary dump trades.
Braves were set to sign Puig until he had Covid. So i dont think they cared too much about his past, and his reverse splits are actually fine. But i think only way we'd need Puig is if there's a DH. If there's no DH, probably not. Regarding Greene, even if that's the case, the current RH bullpen options aside from Martin are not the greatest.
I don't know why I feel this way, but seems like the Braves were not so happy with the way the Puig story went down last season.
I love JBJ and think he would be a nice addition to the team, but giving him a long term deal is no smarter than giving Ender one. He's a defense first CF who is now post-prime. I'm not even sure he really makes all that much sense on a short team friendly deal as the Braves probably don't need to invest any more preseason dollars in CF defense with Pache, Acuna and the corpse of Ender being answers on paper.
I feel like the Braves add a reliever and go into the season at this point.
I hope Inciarte bounces because:
Eaton 7m
Pederson 7m
Rosario 8m
Brett Gardiner 4m
David Dahl 2.7m
Kevin Pillar 5m
Adam Duvall 5m
5th OF division:
Michael Taylor 1.75m
Almora 1.25m
Billy Hamilton - Minor League deal
John Jay - Minor League deal
Mallex Smith - Minor League deal
Brock Holt - Minor
Souza - Minor
Among others.
Gardner at $4M....that's one i'm not happy about, but maybe he wanted to stay in NY.
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jpx7 (02-22-2021)
I may be in the minority, but I'm pretty happy about the Kipnis and Lamb signings... I think they will both be very solid options if used correctly. However, I still want another outfielder... especially if there's a DH
DirkPiggler (02-22-2021)
Gardner hasn't signed yet has he? It seems obvious he wants to stay in NY, but he'd be just a perfect fit for this team
EDIT: Nevermind... I see where he signed a couple days ago... I must have just missed it... I doubt he was ever going to leave NY if they had any interest at all in resigning him
Ken Rosenthal’s latest says the Braves pushed hard for Trevor Rosenthal (on a two-year, backloaded deal), and wanted O’Day, Melancon and Duvall back as well. Says the Braves have about five million left and want to maintain flexibility for the trade deadline.
jpx7 (02-22-2021)