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There aren't any answers to quadratic equations rolling around his noggin, but my guess is he's making sure Eddie isn't thrown under the bus.

Once Ozuna and Snit are gone, they can probably do a bit of roster-restructuring and cycle guys through the DH role and have a couple of bench guys that are better than the current set. I know I harp on this more than others and Snitker has generally been a "write the line-up in my sleep guy"...

My rule of thumb is bascially "Have the player playing in AA by the time the 40-man decision on him has to be made." When they went from 4 years to 5 years for guys younger than 19 to be protected on the 40-man, it was a bit of help for the international guys but when you eliminate short-season...

We'll see what happens with the Giants' series. They don't win the series (or maybe sweep the series), it's time to sell. It looks like the Padres are going to win today, so that would put them 10.5 back in the wild card. I think if it stays double digits after the Giants, the phone will...

FCL season ends on Friday and I wonder if they will move Perdomo up to Augusta. On the one hand, he needs swings in competitive situations, but on the other I'm guess that Lodise will start there shortly along with Miller and Williams. Not a lot of room. It's only one game, but it's...

An upside-down game. I think most thought Wentz would struggle and the pen would have to do some heavy lifting to win the game. Instead, the pen brought the "heavy water" that combined with the Yankee bats to create a nuclear explosion. Bummer and Iglesias doing a great job pimping their...

I always thought Tommy Lasorda was a jerk, but he did have one good joke in him. Someone asked if he thought former Braves' catcher Bruce Benedict was slow. Tommy responded something to the effect "Benedict raced a pregnant woman and came in third." But you're right. Ozuna's presence alone...

Ozuna is now the pinch-runner.

Everyone probably knew the range of McKenzie's bonus demands, but I wonder if those demands change somewhat as the draft unfolds. I mean, anyone could have taken McKenzie at any point so while pre-draft conversations were likely there was still going to be a lot of territory to cover before the...

I agree that if everything is nailed down pre-draft, going through the front door is the way to go. But it's always going to be a moving target to some extent and sometimes you have to account for the variables. I don't know what the plan was this year, but from my vantage point McKenzie and...

It hasn't been Anthopoulos' MO to trade veterans for prospects, so I don't know why he would start now. I think he's have to be absolutely bowled over to trade Murphy. I can see Ozuna being moved because you can cycle Baldwin and Murphy through the DH spot, but unless he can get an absolute...

Here's Caden Merritt's very slim page at Baseball Reference. Struggling mightily with the bat, but he is largely playing against guys 2-3 years older than him.

To avoid Carter Stewart redux. I agree that drafting to slot is ideal, but if you can't sign your first round pick, you lose the entire slot amount and that can hold things up when trying to sign the rest of the draft class. McKenzie or Essenburg decide not to sign as 4th and 5th round picks...

I am not going to pore through the drafts and international signings, but few of the overslot and high-profile international signings have played up to their billing and in the case of the post-Round 10 guys in 2019, only Tyler Owens is in the major leagues after toiling for what seems like...

Florida Complex League season ends next week, so the high school guys probably will just go to the Florida complex and work with the instructional staff. I can't figure out why the season is so short. First, they move the draft to the second week of July and then they truncate the rookie...

Braves put out a $1 MM offer to Ortiz, Fick, and Travis Lee. Fick took it before the ink was dry. Ortiz ended up signing for $1.25 MM a couple of weeks later and Lee for $500,000 a couple weeks after that. Lee actually rebounded in 2003 and had a higher bWAR than Ortiz that year, signed a $2...

After following his early-DSL season in 2025, I figured he might get to come stateside. K-rate and BB-rate much improved while not sacrificing power. I'm leery of guys who repeast lower levels, but he's young and if he keeps this up he will be in the mix with a bunch of the other younger OFs.

It's not crazy to go under with the first round pick and find a guy who will agree to an underslot deal. If you draft a high-profile guy that you may have to go well over slot to sign and he doesn't sign, you forfeit that pool money and that causes real problems. That's why the Braves took...

2B really hasn't been a position where the Braves have had a lot of top-drawer performers. Only multi-year 2B in the Hall of Fame is Red Schoendienst and he only played in Milwaukee a little over two years that were marred by injury and illness. Giles has the best single season with the bat...

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