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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...

Daniel Brooks Baseball Reference Page Will Eldridge Baseball Reference Page Adiel Melendez Baseball Reference Page (Pitched at Montevallo University in Alabama his last season. Same school as Braves' 2024 8th Round pick Logan Samuels) Scott Mudler Baseball Reference Page

They're a team without much of a margin for error. They don't really have a star player on offense, but they are fairly solid on offense as a whole outside of a lack of power. Pitching is average.

I'm not disappointed, but I am a bit surprised in that they just seemed to veer dramatically from the course they have taken in the past. Only they can plot out how they are going to maneuver the bonus pool, but they've consistently tried to draft a post-round 10 flyer and they didn't do that...

They held off on that until they got to the major leagues, where they not only farted but played like crap.

I don't know if it's worthless, but I always preferred the Baseball Prospectus method where they gave two grades: one for ceiling and one for chances of reaching ceiling.

There's a strict bonus limit for non-drafted players. I don't know the number off the top of my head, but I believe it's less than the basic amount of guys drafted between Rounds 11 and 20.

I had to bug out and go with my step-grandchildren to the new Jurassic Park movie (not that great) and couldn't post the stats/bios of the Braves' draftees. Here are the guys from Round 13 through 20. Round 13: Logan Forsythe Baseball Reference Page (RHP) Round 14: Mathieu Curtis Virginia...

Where was it announced?

I'm old and go back to the 1950s, so I won't bore you. Robert Fick would have been ready to fight whomever.

You dissing Big City Matt Adams? The guy who was so good they moved Freeman to 3B?