2025-2026 offseason thread

I agree and assumed AA saw the flawed roster last year with starters being a huge risk and the pen down minter and JJ. Plus the lack of depth at any position along with ASScia being the starter. Yet he didn’t also anything except watch a team flounder for several months.
 
They reset the tax to spend and can spin last years lack of spending any way they want. The team makes a ton of money and is in their contention window so adding around the edges won't cut it after the last 2 seasons. A SP, SS, RP, and OF bat are still needed in that order. I'm a big Ritchie fan and he's close but if you could flip him for say Neto from the Angels that would save a lot of money to till the other spots.
 
Folks may want to read McDuck’s quote again. It was the most noncommittal way of saying they want a Top 5 payroll that could still make the fanbase run around saying they will have a Top 5 payroll.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
I agree and assumed AA saw the flawed roster last year with starters being a huge risk and the pen down minter and JJ. Plus the lack of depth at any position along with ASScia being the starter. Yet he didn’t also anything except watch a team flounder for several months.
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There was a measure of arrogance in the manner that Anthopoulos approached last off-season. Arcia ran out of horseshoes and we were left with the worst hitter in MLB manning the SS position. Things maybe look different if Profar doesn't get caught sniffing metaphorical performance enhancing glue and there isn't the avalanche of pitching injuries, but a lot of significant assumptions were made and there was no back-up plan when one was clearly needed.
 
Acting like this isn’t the riskiest collection of arms to make up a rotation on any contender is also a problem.

Sale can get hurt falling on grass or sneezing.

Schwelly literally had a broken elbow.

Strider didn’t recover any velocity as the season progressed.

Waldrep is the classic sophomore slump candidate.

Lopez is coming off multiple arm injuries, including injuries to his shoulder, and pitched 3 innings.

Holmes is on the classic “delay TJS” path.
 
Enscheff said:
Acting like this isn’t the riskiest collection of arms to make up a rotation on any contender is also a problem.

Sale can get hurt falling on grass or sneezing.

Schwelly literally had a broken elbow.

Strider didn’t recover any velocity as the season progressed.

Waldrep is the classic sophomore slump candidate.

Lopez is coming off multiple arm injuries, including injuries to his shoulder, and pitched 3 innings.

Holmes is on the classic “delay TJS” path.
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100%. You could make a strong argument that the best allocation of the remaining resources should be spent exclusively on pitching
 
Enscheff said:
Acting like this isn’t the riskiest collection of arms to make up a rotation on any contender is also a problem.

Sale can get hurt falling on grass or sneezing.

Schwelly literally had a broken elbow.

Strider didn’t recover any velocity as the season progressed.

Waldrep is the classic sophomore slump candidate.

Lopez is coming off multiple arm injuries, including injuries to his shoulder, and pitched 3 innings.

Holmes is on the classic “delay TJS” path.
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Yep and with that much risk there's no way you could get enough quality options in case 25 repeats itself. I do feel better right now about the depth than I did last year. Chris Bassitt seems like the short term Charlie Morton type AA loves.
 
Enscheff said:
Acting like this isn’t the riskiest collection of arms to make up a rotation on any contender is also a problem.

Sale can get hurt falling on grass or sneezing.

Schwelly literally had a broken elbow.

Strider didn’t recover any velocity as the season progressed.

Waldrep is the classic sophomore slump candidate.

Lopez is coming off multiple arm injuries, including injuries to his shoulder, and pitched 3 innings.

Holmes is on the classic “delay TJS” path.
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Not saying you’re wrong, but you can really identify the worst case scenario for every one of our pitchers. Odds are that some of those things will happen, but hopefully more of them won’t.

This could probably be said about pretty much every team in baseball.😀
 
The Braves knew they needed to reset the tax last season. They knew it a year ago and they knew it two and three years ago. Today, they know they don’t need to reset it for this season and may not need to reset it ever again. I’ll be stunned if they don’t go over the first tax bracket before opening day.
 
Jaw said:
The Braves knew they needed to reset the tax last season. They knew it a year ago and they knew it two and three years ago. Today, they know they don’t need to reset it for this season and may not need to reset it ever again. I’ll be stunned if they don’t go over the first tax bracket before opening day.
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That makes 2 of us. The CBA could change a lot of things but teams would have to be grandfathered in to what was already done prior.
 
AA also is one of those that would also like payroll flexibility space to add at deadline like he did absorbing Iglesias contract a few years ago. So if we don’t spend it all this offseason people are going to freak out lol
 
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