Robert Allen

To Dickey or not to Dickey, that is the question?

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I think whether you want to keep him or not you have to pick up the option. He would have some value on the trade market.
 
Think through old people on our team that have a team option for next year. The answer should come quickly after that.
 
Keep Dickey if he wants to pitch another year.

If Snickers is retained, at least fire Hernandez. Firing Hernandez should be the #1 move after the 2017 season ends.
 
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I'd rather they go in another direction, but Enscheff did a good job in another thread pointing out that the FA market is thin and the price for anyone worth a shot is probably beyond the Braves' budget guidelines. I will be curious as to what direction the front office takes.
 
50PoundHead said:
I'd rather they go in another direction, but Enscheff did a good job in another thread pointing out that the FA market is thin and the price for anyone worth a shot is probably beyond the Braves' budget guidelines. I will be curious as to what direction the front office takes.
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The Braves have 29 million coming out of the opening day budget for last season counting Garcia, Colon, and Rodriguez. While some of that will be offset by raises elsewhere there should be a chunk of change to spend given how Enscheff has demonstrated how cheap the Braves lineup actually is outside of the outfield.

I don't know if the Braves will chase 3B or starting pitching or the relief market, but personally my guess is the payroll is pretty consistent this year to what it is last year. If so, they easily can be in the 12-14 million dollar a year range for one or two guys.

I'm not sure I recommend it, particularly on any sort of long term commitment, but I think they could do it if they felt the candidates were worthy.

As I pointed out in another post -- Liberty's financials show Braves profits through August were up 66% before depreciation and amortization one the same period last season. It won't be as much above last season for the close to the season, but it will still be more than last year.

My assumption based on the profits is that the payroll from last year did not really stretch things for Atlanta and that they should be able to sustain more of the same.

We'll see. Maybe the 2017 balance sheet as a whole will look worse than those two quarters, but seems like what they did is sustainable. And they should have much less one time expense this year than last.

I just don't see a whole lot to spend money on out there.
 
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