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I like those guys ok, but not sure why they would know.

He always seemed like one that physical decline was going to clip pretty fast.

Staying under the tax seems to have at least been at least a fall back goal of the offseason. They had a reasonable expectation of making playoff, maybe winning the division, but were pretty dependent on Health and bounce back offense. They got some real problems to fix now and it's going to...

Another season where the injuries have really piled up. Selling seems obvious but Braves have been fairly reluctant in the past.

I'm not sure I follow how. Seems to be the same one or two fast emerging prospects there always are.

I'm not sure. If Sale, Strider and Schwellenbach are pitching well seems likely their money will be better spent in the pen, at SS, or OF.

I'd never heard of him before and saw him play two games. Had no idea how old he was. He made an impression.

The Royals prospect (catcher) Ramirez was also impressive.

I was wondering whether Carey was a prospect. Looks pretty good in the OF and hit some balls sharply this weekend. Drake looked like you should look but thought he had some weak fouls balls. Gil does look the part of a 70 runner.

AA has won some and lost some, but it's hard to cast many stones at the end result. I'm guessing that a long term deal extending well into the future that put them in tax hell probably would not have been a very good one. Doesn't mean that some better additions around the edges might not...

Firing coaches midseason has never really made any sense.

I do not think firing coaches generally makes things better. Managers seem the least consequential of all. To the extent they do matter, Snitker's teams have tended to perform well. I think a bigger impact would be made by getting Strider and Acuna back and for Sale to stop scuffling.

Maybe, though I wouldn't consider either a particularly long commitment. Some of those extensions might scare him more.

I'm probably missing a lot about PEDs and for cause contract terminations, so I'll just ask: what do we know about that?

He lost his fastball last year. If he gets it back he's still pretty good. Big if.

There are several of you who still hype Jason heyward every offseason.

I did not follow that comment either. Perhaps sarcasm?

I don't have an opinion whether Anderson might have more stuff left. I'd guess probably not. I do know that he had a more successful career than almost all of the pitchers that anyone wanted to draft ahead of him and certainly the OF with the giant hole in his swing that never did anything.

Braves maybe have more injury risk than average in rotation though it's hard to really say how much more than average. I'm not sure that their organizational depth will turn out to be much worse than most club's organizational depth. The Dodgers/Padres aside I guess. In the era of...

I didn't love the pick to begin with but clearly he has justified it. It's good to change an opinion sometimes. I'd say some places thought he was a bigger prospect than others.