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It seems like AA has the mindset of "if you can't improve positions of need, get better players at the positions where you don't have an urgent need." Although I still feel like this move was made more for 2024-2025 than for the upcoming season.

Seeing how these contracts are going, and how teams are going more years/slightly less AAV to skirt the luxury tax, does AA circle back to Dansby with something like 10 years in the $180MM-$200MM range? Maybe even front loaded since the Braves apparently has more room in the actual payroll than...

Most of the analysis I’ve seen on the trade focuses on this year. To me it seems this move is more about 2024-2025. d’Arnaud is at the age where he could fall off a cliff at any minute. If the aging curve hits him this year, or if the Braves just choose not to resign him, they are looking at...

Framing is going to become irrelevant once the robo umps are implemented.

So basically the Brewers gave up a speed guy who will never hit for a good bat/questionable D catcher and a couple of arms.

Braves get Murphy Brewers get Contreras, RHP Yeager (from ATL), RHP Payamps (from OAK). A’s get RHP Muller, C Piña, RH prospect Tarnok (from ATL), OF Ruiz (from MIL). https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1602408708255977474?s=20&t=AxU4yRZ5kgyn9Z8eZ7sXxQ Rosenthal says Justin Yeager is in...

Tarnok is going to A's, per Robert Murray. Who the hell is Robert Murray? https://twitter.com/ByRobertMurray/status/1602403970407751681?s=20&t=FkrneZtXkpaLGfb87LJ_MQ

Knowing those two moves, it seems like it makes sense that the Braves would be sending a couple of pitchers (Anderson, Elder, etc) to Oakland, with Adames coming back our way from MIL.

Wild Bill allegedly going to Brewers.

Murphy to the Braves, per Passan. https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1602396186899513350?s=20&t=FkrneZtXkpaLGfb87LJ_MQ

Fortunately we don't have to worry about those decisions until 2029 for Acuña, 2028 for Albies, and 2025 for Max.

The Braves should bring in msstate7 and myself as consultants any time they are considering drafting a player from the SEC. I'm pretty sure either of us could have told them that Shewmake wasn't going to pan out just from watching him in college. Can't speak for him, but I know I'd make...

I'm fine with there being a line. I just wish it was a straight one between two points rather than something drawn on a two year old's Etch-a-Sketch. If there are going to be exceptions, I want my guy to be one of them. As a fan I'm under no obligation to be objective. I wish the voters...

Also, RE the Jim Rice/Harold Baines arguments: Murphy's injury troubles late in his career were almost certainly a cumulative effect of playing more demanding defensive positions for much of his career (C early as a big guy, CF in his prime). If he had been able to DH for 50-150 games per year...

Why I disagree... 1. If Murph had put up those same 44 WAR (46.5 bWAR) while playing much of his career in New York, Boston, Chicago, or LA, he would have probably been a first or second ballot Hall of Famer. He is penalized for playing in what was at the time a smaller market. If his...

Nimmo was close to being a Hog as well. Van Horn found him out west, playing ball in an area with no HS ball, and signed him. Thought he would be able to keep him hidden, but the damned dirty Mets found him. Clearly he wasn't of high enough character to play for the Razorbacks given that...

Andrew Benintendi might fit in that role as well, probably at a little lower cost.

It's just hard to envision them spending that kind of money on a 4th starter knowing they had a hole to fill at SS. I can't imagine AA making that kind of move.

It should have. Gary Matthews was one answer. 109/130 here, but I gave up with 3 minutes left. Had four misses from the modern (post-1991) era, and one obvious one from the early Atlanta period.

It seems like a spinoff would grant the team autonomy, and would prevent the direct or indirect siphoning of profits in good years like we saw under TW AOL ownership. We likely won't see something like a long-term well below market TV deal to make another part of the corporation appear more...