Official 2024 Off-Season Thread!

thewupk said:
GM speak. It's Elder's unless he shows nothing in ST.
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Agreed.

It could also have been part of the sales pitch we gave to Lopez to get him to sign. "We'll let you compete for a starting spot." Would be disingenuous to not give him a legitimate shot if that were the case.
 
Somebody won’t be ready to start the season in the rotation. Elder will almost certainly be in the rotation opening day, unless he’s the guy who gets hurt.
 
Man, these last two years of seeing the Braves dominate during the season just to get dominated by a good but way less talented Phillies team has admittedly taken it out of me. My excitement levels have not been 100% but I'm starting to get there... this roster is LOADED. Our best players are among the game's best and our worst players have solid to great upside.
 
msstate7 said:
Awesome.

Why don't they put international guys in the draft? What's the reasoning in separating them?
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It's been talked about for years and I thought an international draft was a fait accompli after the Coppelella penalties. For some reason, it doesn't get talked about much in the collective bargaining discussions. I still think it's coming because there are probably a lot of unseemly things still going on in the international market.
 
What is left for AA to accomplish before spring?

One last bench bat (Michael A Taylor)?
One more cheap SP for injury insurance to Fried/Morton/Sale?
 
Carp said:
Owners want it. MLBPA does not (so far). Not sure there is much reasoning behind it other than being a bargaining chip in negotiations.
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Like you, I agree that this is well down the list of MLBPA's priorities, but bringing order to the international system would likely bring down bonuses and put more money on the table for contract and collective bargaining negotiations. I'm sure there's still a lot of under-the-table things happening in the international market and allowing that to continue is really in no one's best interests. I'm still confused as to why Coppolella and, by extension, the Braves were reprimanded so heavily unless it was simply because their cheating was so blatant.
 
WaitingFor2017 said:
What is left for AA to accomplish before spring?

One last bench bat (Michael A Taylor)?
One more cheap SP for injury insurance to Fried/Morton/Sale?
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Wil Myers, Randal Grichuk, Adam Duvall, Jurickson Profar, Tommy Pham, Michael Taylor, Whit Merrifield

Those are all current MLB FA OFers that are RHH or switch hitter in Profars case.

EDIT: Free agent right hand hitters that should be cheap....
 
mfree80 said:
Do we know what caused Grichuk’s numbers to be so bad last year?
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Besides the fact that he’s just not very good? Nothing I can see.

He’s pretty much a below average hitter that can play CF and should be cheap. The benefit is the .822 career OPS vs LHP that could pair well with Kelenic and Harris in the event Snit ever figures out how to give guys an occasional day off.
 
Pham seems like he’d be a good mix on this roster.
We don’t have many clubhouse “lite a fire under you types.
I think that has been missing the last two season’s.
 
cajunrevenge said:
Just seems crazy to have a 24 year old SP with a 3.66 ERA in his first 40 starts coming off an all star selection not even guaranteed a 5th spot in the rotation. He would have to really blow it to not get the spot imo just because Lopez helps more in the pen and AJSS/Waldrep need to have their service time considered.
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I would guess part of their discussion with Lopez was giving him a shot at competing for rotation. No harm in seeing what it looks like. Also AJSS certainly deserves the right to compete.

Also good to motivate Elder.
 
WaitingFor2017 said:
What is left for AA to accomplish before spring?

One last bench bat (Michael A Taylor)?
One more cheap SP for injury insurance to Fried/Morton/Sale?
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Between Lopez, Winans, AJSS, Vines, Waldrep, eventually Ian Anderson as well, we have more than enough SP depth to cover through the regular season.
 
So AA says not to believe the rumors of an offer for Nola. Says that Nola's first choice was always to re-sign with the Phillies, but there was an understanding that both sides had interest if he couldn't work something out with Philly.

I think it's pretty unlikely we would have approached anything close to what Philly did. Maybe some team option years that would have equaled that much if we picked up them up, but certainly not anywhere close in guaranteed money.
 
Carp said:
So AA says not to believe the rumors of an offer for Nola. Says that Nola's first choice was always to re-sign with the Phillies, but there was an understanding that both sides had interest if he couldn't work something out with Philly.

I think it's pretty unlikely we would have approached anything close to what Philly did. Maybe some team option years that would have equaled that much if we picked up them up, but certainly not anywhere close in guaranteed money.
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Was said we offered around 6/160 but i find it hard to think AA would do that.
 
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