Official 2024 Off-Season Thread!

Is payroll going up to align relative with the inflation of league payrolls or is it going up because the team is bringing in more revenue so we’re getting a pay raise?
 
DOB: Alex Anthopoulos said #Braves payroll will increase again, will be higher to start 2024 than the approximate $205M where it ended in 2023. Wouldn't say how much that increase would be.

Also confirmed that moving INF Vaughn Grissom to left field is an option they've discussed.
 
So we’ll have all new base coaches. We’ve talked about Grissom to LF before but this is the first time I’ve see the team say it.
 
Hudson2 said:
So we’ll have all new base coaches. We’ve talked about Grissom to LF before but this is the first time I’ve see the team say it.
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Unless he’s somehow a lights out defender, I just can’t see him hitting well enough to be a regular LF. I’d love to be wrong
 
chop2chip said:
Unless he’s somehow a lights out defender, I just can’t see him hitting well enough to be a regular LF. I’d love to be wrong
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I don't think we'll have to worry about it. With Washington taking over the Angels, I fully expect the Halos to trade Trout to the Braves for Grissom so that Washington can finish making him into a Gold Glove shortstop. Of course, the Angels are going to have to sweeten the pot for the deal to happen.
 
50PoundHead said:
I don't think we'll have to worry about it. With Washington taking over the Angels, I fully expect the Halos to trade Trout to the Braves for Grissom so that Washington can finish making him into a Gold Glove shortstop. Of course, the Angels are going to have to sweeten the pot for the deal to happen.
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My theory is after working with Grissom last winter, Vaughn was such a lost cause that Ron started hatching his escape plan.
 
League sources think Corbin Burnes is available. After Council left they think Milwaukee might tear it down and rebuild.

He's projected for 15.1 mil in last year of arby
 
Tapate50 said:
League sources think Corbin Burnes is available. After Council left they think Milwaukee might tear it down and rebuild.

He's projected for 15.1 mil in last year of arby
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Curious what the Brewers would want in return. If they are indeed tearing it all down, they would probably opt for ceiling and that would mean someone like Smith-Shawver. Smith-Shawver has been deemed untouchable to some extent, but with the seeming strategy of drafting college arms early, I wonder if Anthopoulos would make a move like this because it looks like they are trying to build a pipeline of upper-system arms so that they can move some of them in trades if need be.

When Anthopoulos took over, he said he wasn't going to do what he did in Toronto in terms of trading prospects for veteran talent but he has done a lot of that. Perhaps not to the extent of what he did in Toronto, but he's shown no reluctance in moving prospects if he can land the right guy. The only question for us is whether he sees Burnes as that guy.
 
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