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Vizcaino came to us in the deal that brought Melky Cabrera and Mike Dunn to the Braves with Javier Vazquez and Boone Logan going to the Yankees.

FCL season started today. Braves lose 11-2 to Tampa Bay. Familiar names on the FCL Braves' roster: IF Mario Baez, IF Diego Benitez (now playing 1B), and 2024 big-time bonus recipient Jose Perdomo. A couple of 2023 and 2024 draft picks: OFs Kade Kern and Dalton McIntyre. 2022 HS UDFA RHP...

Riley yes and Harris no. Both these guys aren't known for their patience, but Harris' career BB-rate is < 5%. Riley's is a little better 7.7%. When it comes to talking a walk, Harris is basically LHH-Jeff Francoeur and I don't think that's ever going to change. Riley's minor league BB-rate...

Three HR, 8 RBI night for Ethan Workinger in Mississippi. I don't know if he fits in the Braves' long-term plans. He's been a slow but steady climber in the system after signing as a NDFA after the truncated 2020 MLB draft. Puzzler to me is that he had a decent season at a California JC but...

This team is built for a specified window of contention. Unless they viewed Kelenic as someone who could extend the window, I don't think the move made any sense. Unlike you, I'm not that big a fan of the outside-the-box thinking in the acquistion department. I think we've seen a similar...

But that's really part of the issue. A team just can't make assumptions that everyone who had a career year is going to gave another career year. I get why they wanted Kelenic and he was decent in 2023. The problem is (zbhargrove, who I greatly respect thinks otherwise) we did take a...

Saw him play live last year when Gwinnett was in St. Paul. Looks very athletic and smooth in the batters' box and on the basepaths. He played CF that night and had trouble with a few fly balls but was athletic enough to adjust in time. I've watched a lot of baseball over the years and White...

I don't know how hard he was throwing playing catch (probably not that hard), but Strider looks to be a really tightly muscled guy and from watching his delivery, I am surprised that he doesn't pull more muscles (especially his obliques). He has a high effort delivery and the legs and lower...

Had a very rough inning as well. 3 BB and 1 K. 33 pitches and only 14 strikes. Also had a throwing error. Could be an injury but the manager may have thought there was no reason to leave him out there when he was obviously couldn't find the plate.

It has been belabored a bit over the past couple of off-seasons, but I think Snitker is a bit at sea given he lost a lot of clubhouse leadership that he relied upon. This isn't about Freeman or Swanson moving on (the gravel on that road has now been crushed down to sand), but I would venture a...

I never had great disdain for Francoeur and I know that I have criticized Acuna for lacking baseball sense, but by comparison with Acuna, who may have needed a remedial class or two, Francoeur was a consistent passenger on the short bus.

I don't follow as closely as I used to, but I did see a snippet when I was out-of-town over the weekend that Kelenic decided to give his brain (and body) a rest and get thrown out on a play due to lack of hustle. Acuna goes off on Twitter (f*ck Musk) and criticizes Snitker for not pulling...

Maybe they just should have kept him after he pitched for Mississippi in 2023.

The puzzling thing about Verdugo is that there was absolutely no market for him this past off-season. Maybe his agent was asking for too much, but I was surprised when he was still available in mid-March.

Verdugo seems redundant to Kelenic as well. Looks like there will be some treading water until Acuna returns soon and Profar later. Curious to see how Verdugo does. Verdugo has a better record of performance than Kelenic, but he wasn't very good last year.

Or the Outkasts.

Of all the things Anthopoulos has done to de-Coppolellasize the organization, the absence of a decision on Snitker is starting to stick out a bit. I don't know if firing him matters all that much and if he is let go, there would probably be a major housecleaning of the current staff (...

Tatis, Sr., on the list. Tatis, Jr., keeping it in the family.

Played for 13 different teams. Traded three times at the trade deadline. He was a solid relief pitcher pretty much his whole career.

Some interesting performances over the weekend. Brightest performances were with the bats in Augusta, where Hartman, Carey, and Drake all had good weekends. After the first three games, Hartman is 6/14 (.429), 3 R, 4 RBI, 1 2B, 2 HR (Walk-off for the win on Sunday). Carey went 4/14 (.308), 2...