Official Offseason Thread

Keep seeing different things about us making a huge dumb trade for Betts.
Like Pache +!Mueller + Wright.
Seems absurd to me.
Thoughts ?
 
Just my opinion: That package would be better served with the 18 years of potential to Braves than 1 year of Betts. Also, if Braves were willing to and in position to pay $30M to any player why not someone like Cole, Strasburg or Rendon?
 
ixiXSolidXixi said:
Any chance Grandal sign a 2 year deal for around 35 million?
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2/40 might be realistic if Grandal truly prefers high AAV over longer deals with more guaranteed cash.

Having said that, AA just gave 3 years to a BP arm in his 30s, so all my talk about him not giving a catcher 3-4 years is probably complete garbage at this point. The Will Smith deal is so completely out of character compared to everything AA has done with the Braves that I have no idea what types of moves he may make.
 
Southcack77 said:
Moose is a massive downgrade.
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Maybe. But if the Smith signing is a sign of increased payroll and pushing a few chips in, wouldn't Moose for 2/$20 million and Grandal for 2/$40 million make more sense than Donaldson for 3/$75 million???

Take two legitimate shots at it while you still control Freddie. If you have to start another rebuild at that point (2022), you could do it really quickly - all that money will come off the books and Soroka and Fried would have two years of control left if you were looking to cash them in.
 
Enscheff said:
I would have bet any amount of anything the Braves would never give up a draft pick to sign a BP arm to a 3 year deal...and I would have lost.

This goes completely against AA's prior MO, so we can now give up trying top predict what he's going to do. I don't even think our $130M projection for the opening day payroll is necessarily correct anymore.

Buckle up I guess...
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For real. I guess we didn't have the payroll flexibility last year, but on paper, Kimbrel sure as hell made a lot more sense last year than Smith does this year.
 
Carp said:
For real. I guess we didn't have the payroll flexibility last year, but on paper, Kimbrel sure as hell made a lot more sense last year than Smith does this year.
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I think smith is way better than KK. I like smith and I think his delivery is easy and not max effort. He will probably be effective the whole contract.

I am still just worried we are getting pitching and then going cheap on hitting.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
I think smith is way better than KK. I like smith and I think his delivery is easy and not max effort. He will probably be effective the whole contract.

I am still just worried we are getting pitching and then going cheap on hitting.
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Sign Rendon
Pache start season at CF, Acuna RF, Duvall/Markakis/Riley platoon LF until Waters is ready

Would leave C as the weakness and SP a question mark but would have a young legit offensive and defensive team with assets to trade for your catcher and SP without it hurting too much with future. Idk.
 
thethe said:
What's the projection on Rendon for AAV? I'm wondering if that's the gameplan here.
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I'd have to imagine he's looking for close to 250 million over 8 years with multiple Opt outs. I'm guessing a minimum of 30 million in AAV.
 
ixiXSolidXixi said:
Enscheff you have any idea how much money we should have left for the rest of the offseason?
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Currently sitting right at $100M with holes at C, 3B and SP.

Either payroll is going way up, or the Smith signing just forced the Braves to shop in the bargain bin to fill a couple holes.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
I'm not saying I make the trade if I'm GM but a chance to watch Betts, Albies, Acuna and Freddie on the same field would unreal.
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For a year, sure, then our farm is wrecked, and our window is just about closed going forward. No thanks. Given not a good chance we'd pay Mookie 300+ mil.
 
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