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Some mildly intriguing minor league numbers, especially when it comes to plate discipline. Still, just roster flotsam.

Well, yes, Andruw should be in.

I was surprised that Mauer had such an easy glide path to the Hall of Fame, considering his relatively abbreviated career and resulting superficially unimpressive counting stats. But I don't put any weight on supposed distinctions between "Hall of Famer" and "first ballot Hall of Famer," so I'm...

He plays for the Angels now, so in a very real sense, no, not really.

Zack Gelof had a pretty impressive season for someone I had never heard of until 20 minutes ago. Still seems weird to rank him over Albies.

Conversely, the Tigers are going to arbitration with Casey Mize over a $25,000 difference.

But what about the long-term risk if Anthopolous suffers a torn parietal lobe?

The dirty little secret is that Anthopolous is The Atlanta Braves Foundation.

Guillorme was terrible last year, but he can make contact, draw some walks and play all the difficult infield positions acceptably well. Reasonable enough signing for a role that's not going to see too much playing time.

I'm pro-Harrison Bader, but sheesh, that's a lot of money.

Yeah, I don't have the world's highest opinion of Snitker, but I don't believe that he's an actual, factual stupid person. I don't think he's ignorant of Sale's age and injury history, and if Anthopolous sits down with him in spring training and says, "Look, Sale's fragile, we need him for the...

Just sign Gator Legend Harrison Bader and call it an off-season.

Rosenthal has a long piece on the trade. Nothing Earth-shattering, but he walks through the thought process involved. https://theathletic.com/5175739/2024/01/02/atlanta-braves-chris-sale-charlie-morton/

Part of the reason I'm a little more down on the Sale trade than a lot of people (the money makes it better than I initially thought) is that I don't know that there actually is a lot of upside with him. It feels like there should be, because it's CHRIS SALE, Badass Cy Young Contender, but...

Interestingly, the advanced stats mostly show him battling right field to a draw during his time in Atlanta. They have him -1 run defensively in 2002 and -2 runs in 2003, after being -15 in 2001 and -10 in 2004. I don't know how much of that is statistical flukiness, how much of that is...

In isolation I don't mind taking a flier on Sale, just as, in isolation, I don't mind trading Grissom for a valuable piece for the big league team. But I'm not wild about trading Grissom for Sale.

This is one of those takes where you just make a sweeping psychological judgement based on basically nothing, so I apologize in advance, but...I always got the sense during Andrelton's time in Atlanta that the Braves and Simmons never really knew what they wanted him to be as a hitter. He was an...

Things don't seem to be going too well for Wander Franco.

I was going to say "So, like, seven guys?" And it turns out that dickish snark would have been overly generous.