Mish: Sources : Braves appear to be a slight favorite to land Realmuto. Austin Riley is on the table. Lots of moving parts. Mets & Yanks are still in & probably need to outdo ATL to get J.T. Reds have fallen back. TB/SD def in but longshots. Not imminent.
If AA's going to go get Realmuto, he needs to go ahead and pony-up for Peralta or Pederson since J. T.'s more or less a win-now move.
Does he have a taker for Julio and Flowers? That's around $15 million. Realmuto and Peralta will cost around $15 million. Still leaves the $18-$20 million we think he has left to spend to chase a SP.
The rumblings that we're "in" on Keuchel and Joel Sherman's continuous expectation that we're "in" on Kimbrel wouldn't be quite so odd then, and he wouldn't have had to empty the farm with the trades. Say Riley and Wilson in the Realmuto deal (just can't imagine they'll take fungible Pitching even with Riley) and Pache for Peralta? I love the idea of Kimbrel, but hate the money as much as everyone else does, but AA would have held onto Folty, Gausman, Newk, Soroka, Touki, Fried, Gohara, Wright, and Anderson as the rotation pieces for the forseeable future with Viz, O'Day, and Freeman coming off the books in the pen next winter plus Mac and Duvall.
Can't possibly imagine it happening, but fun to look at anyway...
RF- Acuna, 3B- Donaldson, 1B- Freeman, C- Realmuto, LF- Peralta, 2B- Albies, CF- Ender, SS- Dansby
Bench - Mac, Camargo, Duvall, Culberson
Folty, Keuchel, Gausman, Newk, Soroka/Wright/Fried/Gohara/Anderson
Touki, Minter, Viz, Venters, O'Day, Biddle, Winkler, Freeman
Sobotka, Carle, Weigel, Burrows, Clouse