2018 Offseason And Targets

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Braves assistant GM says that it doesn’t make sense to go all in for one specific year...

This is old and pisses me off as a fan. I’m excited about a good farm system because we can get whoever we want. We have money to spend on FAs....

I want to see the ATLANTA Braves win...not the Mississippi Braves....

If you aren’t willing to go all in, there is no reason to sign Donaldson
 
bravesfanforlife88 said:
Braves assistant GM says that it doesn’t make sense to go all in for one specific year...

This is old and pisses me off as a fan. I’m excited about a good farm system because we can get whoever we want. We have money to spend on FAs....

I want to see the ATLANTA Braves win...not the Mississippi Braves....

If you aren’t willing to go all in, there is no reason to sign Donaldson
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A move will be made that isn't "going all in"
 
bravesfanforlife88 said:
Braves assistant GM says that it doesn’t make sense to go all in for one specific year...

This is old and pisses me off as a fan. I’m excited about a good farm system because we can get whoever we want. We have money to spend on FAs....

I want to see the ATLANTA Braves win...not the Mississippi Braves....

If you aren’t willing to go all in, there is no reason to sign Donaldson
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It's possible to do all of these things at once. We don't have to punt next year to compete this year, and vice versa. The farm system is there to do both, stockpile the big league club with talent to help us win, and acquire big league talent to help us win.
 
Enscheff said:
This is true, but who was left available late last year? Mous and......? Great news if a team needed a 3B, not so great if they needed an OF.

I don't think waiting around for an OF to be sitting there in late January is a very smart plan for a team just entering their window of contention.

Again, if the signing of JD forces AA to wait until January to sign Markakis because he couldn't afford Brantley/Cutch in December, the JD contract was a mistake and AA misread the cOF market.
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Or Brantley is left out in the cold and eventually has no choice but to take the two-year deal AA presumably has or will offer.
 
CrimsonCowboy said:
I highly doubt it has anything to do with Harper or anyone like him. However, it is at least a little bit intriguing AA is meeting with Liberty executives. I don’t recall a Braves GM doing that since Liberty took over.
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I have no doubt it's a common occurrence. Probably not something we'd ever hear about if not for it being at the end of the winter meetings.
 
So AA said signing a FA with a pick attached to them isn’t a problem and then Pollock was mentioned. I wouldn’t mind him at all in RF.
 
Hudson2 said:
So AA said signing a FA with a pick attached to them isn’t a problem and then Pollock was mentioned. I wouldn’t mind him at all in RF.
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I'd rather have Brantley... I can't imagine he'd be more expensive and Pollock actually had a long history of being injury prone. Brantley does not... he just had the one big injury that took a long time to come back from.
 
zbhargrove said:
I'd rather have Brantley... I can't imagine he'd be more expensive and Pollock actually had a long history of being injury prone. Brantley does not... he just had the one big injury that took a long time to come back from.
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I agree, im not interested in pollock because of your point about how injury prone he's been and the likely cost.
 
zbhargrove said:
I'd rather have Brantley... I can't imagine he'd be more expensive and Pollock actually had a long history of being injury prone. Brantley does not... he just had the one big injury that took a long time to come back from.
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Personally, I think I'm a pass on both of them. Brantley would be fine, but his injury history does scare me. It scares me less than Pollock's, who I'm completely out on, but it scares me nonetheless. I don't know if we should want to take on any heightened injury risk after signing Donaldson and McCann. It just feels like we would be setting ourselves up to get shredded by injuries during the season.

But, if the Front Office feels comfortable with Brantley's medicals and thinks he could play 140 for us without much problem, then I would defer to them since they have more information on that subject.
 
Lonnie Chisenhall (31)
Corey Dickerson (31)
Brett Gardner (36)
Alex Gordon (36) — $23MM mutual option with a $4MM buyout
Matt Kemp (35)
J.D. Martinez (32) — can opt out of remaining three years, $62.5MM
Marcell Ozuna (29)

Center Fielders

Jarrod Dyson (35)
Billy Hamilton (29) — $7.5MM mutual option with a $1MM buyout
Aaron Hicks (30)
Austin Jackson (33)
Juan Lagares (31) — $9.5MM club option with a $500K buyout
Starling Marte (31) — $11.5MM club option for 2020 with a $2MM buyout
Leonys Martin (32)
Chris Owings (28)

Right Fielders

Kole Calhoun (32) — $14MM club option with a $1MM buyout
Nicholas Castellanos (28)
Lonnie Chisenhall (31)
Adam Eaton (31) — $9.5MM club option with a $1.5MM buyout
Jason Heyward (30) — if he does not opt out after the 2018 season, Heyward can opt out after 2019 with 550 PA that year, at which point he would forgo $86MM from 2020-23
Matt Kemp (35)
Yasiel Puig (29)
Eric Thames (33) — $7.5MM club option with a $1MM buyout
Ben Zobrist (39)
 
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