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So less treat their top prospects like the Cubs treated Kris Bryant. Teams did and will still manipulate service time but that one was the most public and obvious. Braves are punished a bit because they don't let their best prospects stay in the minors that long. Aggressive promotions has been...

Brown was still PPI (Prospect Promotion Incentive) eligible. If you don't win the ROY award you still can earn your team a pick by being in the top 3 of MVP or CYA voting before you hit arbitration. So you essentially have a 3 year window.

Except they can't just do that because the players union wouldn't agree to it

This happened even when there wasn't something else on the line. Unless the rookie is a overly obvious choice like Kurtz this year you are going to have hometown votes when you have a rookie that's good on your team. It's not that big of a deal.

Good start to the offseason Grats to Drake on a great rookie campaign.

These people don't think logically. It's all about that rush.

I expect a 50/100 season out of Acuna this year

He's just arguing just to argue. Ignore him.

We got any more of those mid RP types making several millions we can cut? 1 more should get us close to Kim's asking price.

Pay mega bucks for Lombard please.

Because this site sucks

Welll....I meant to say Braves playoff history as a qualifer for the Weiss play. I'd agree any number of Andruw's or Andrelton's plays are better.

What would you put agaisnt it?

You might be right. But in the end you, me, or anyone else doesn't know what those interviews were like or how the season will play out with his managerial moves. So I will leave you with this. The best defensive play in Braves playoff baseball history.

Around 73 million people across USA, Canada, and Japan watched Game 7. So much for baseball being a dead sport.

Gonna wheel Bobby Cox out there

Why haven't we hired Chipper yet?

Imagine being someone who wants their team to be more analytically inclined and yet make statements like this one when they don't have all of the data themselves.

Yeah...maybe this offseason isn't as important as we once thought for AA. If he's towing the company line and being a good solider then his job is safe as long as the battery is bringing in money.