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Another bizarre aspect of the offseason that doesn’t come up much: restructuring Lopez’s contract, which guaranteed him more total money in exchange for a lower 2025 salary. This had no effect on the luxury tax figure and at the time was assumed to free up more money to spend in the offseason...

The most inexplicable part of the Murphy/Contreras trade is why the A's got Milwaukee involved and didn't just take Contreras.

My theory is that AA plans to dip under the luxury tax threshold in 2025 to avoid third-year penalties, and he's making the most of his second year in the tax by taking on all these 2024 dead contracts in exchange for long-term team-controlled assets.

There's a trend of AA fixating on random players and valuing them more than you'd expect. Giving up a draft pick to sign Will Smith to 3 yr deal. Giving Drew Smyly $11 million out of nowhere. Trading Malloy for Jimenez and then doubling down on 3 yr deal.

Are there service-time implications for keeping Soroka in the minors? He's supposed to be a free agent after next season. Can he be kept down long enough to gain another year of control?

Based on the numbers in this article: The Astros paid Will Smith $5.6 million ($4.6 million remaining 2022 contract plus $1 million buyout) The Braves paid Odorizzi $12.29 million ($1.79 million remaining 2022 contract, plus 500k for reaching 100 innings, plus $10 million towards 2023 salary)...

"An eight-year deal beginning in the 2023 season would buy out all six of Harris’ years of club control — he debuted too late in the 2022 season to accrue a full season of service time before season’s end, barring a top-two finish in Rookie of the Year voting — as well as his first two...

1116412977085808643 This is unfathomable.

This is too good: Dating back to this past offseason, I've seen countless rumors linking the Braves to Moustakas, but never once have I gained an ounce of reason to believe they have any interest in him. https://www.mlb.com/braves/news/inbox-will-braves-make-a-deadline-deal/c-285028448

So the DBacks just eat Swanson's $6.5 million signing bonus? Just unreal how dumb they are.

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All hail Coppy! I knew when I saw that it was the DBacks this would be good, but I would have never dreamed of this haul. Inciarte, Blair, Swanson, Touki for Shelby and Gosselin.

Hot Bowman inbox coming through..... http://m.braves.mlb.com/news/article/157420770/will-freddie-freeman-next-player-braves-trade

This is from a while back but deserves to be enshrined. My favorite Bowman video of all time. Just wait for the earpiece to come out... http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/7417714/v195024083/mark-bowman-talks-about-the-braves-on-mlb-now

http://m.braves.mlb.com/news/article/145754264/inbox-examining-braves-plans-to-upgrade ALERT: There is certainly reason to believe Coppolella will be considered a candidate for the vacant GM spots with the Brewers and Angels, and the one that soon could open up with the Mariners.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/13418053/atlanta-braves-pitching-plan-throwback-past?ex_cid=espnapi_public Here's the quote from Coppy: "We see Max Scherzer getting $210 million on the free-agent market," Coppolella said. "We believe free-agent pitching is one of the most inefficient uses of...

Bowman has reason to believe CJ going to Indians.

Quote from Hart justifying the trade on MLB Network Radio today: "looking at the market with Cespedes, Upton, Heyward, the dollars we think will be out of where we want to go." https://twitter.com/MLBNetworkRadio/status/629382956205785088"