2025-2026 offseason thread

The needle definitely has moved forward. Kim is gonna be taking the full time job from Allen last year. Suarez is a second closer so that's huge. Yaz is tons better than Eli White and Dubon is a huge upgrade over Nacho or Williams last year. So how did the needle not move forward? That's insane to say it didn't. Get a good SP and AA has had a very good offseason.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
if it didn't move backward or forward, then you agree with Cheff that is was mediocre. I think if the moves AA has made are deployed correctly, then the needle did in fact move forward.
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I still think another starting pitcher is needed. All the rest of the changes that were made are logical and addressed team needs. I hoped they would get someone a bit better than Yaz, but Yaz will serve his purpose. If the team stays healthy and production doesn't tank, there wasn't a lot that needed to be done. Anthopoulos is banking on good health and a return to form for Albies and Harris. Given that mindset, what's been done makes sense. I guess what I'm saying is that if everyone stays healthy and Harris and Albies rebound a bit, the needle will move forward on its own. It's not exactly an argument over semantics, but the moves in and of themselves aren't what will make or break the Braves.
 
Outside of replacing Burger King and more hamburgers. No moves would cover the. Raves if they both suck. dubon can cover Harrris Or Burger King if one of them struggles. Braves are better off to cover some injuries now too.
 
mikewon said:
According to this logic the only good move a gm can make is acquiring a player below market rate… while he is competing with 29 other gms. I‘m just curious which gm out there is actually doing a good/great job in your opinion?
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AA up until a couple years ago. Almost everything the Dodgers and Rays do. What the As used to do. The Brewers when they stole Contreras and continue to build competitive teams. Every single time a team benefits from waiting to scoop up players whose market crashed.

How many more examples do you need?

Paying market rate for Mike Yastrzemski is not a good move, no matter how big the hole was he filled. It is a very basic move that any professional GM could make. There is nothing remarkable about seeing the Braves needed a new SS, and then paying a quality SS to fill that massive hole. Again, it’s literally a move any GM should make. The very definition of “average”. And for some reason, people are equating average with bad or an insult…like they don’t understand the meaning of the word.

In fact, allowing that massive hole at SS to linger so long is a negative created by the same GM people want to credit for fixing the hole he was responsible for creating and allowed to linger for years.
 
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50PoundHead said:
I still think another starting pitcher is needed. All the rest of the changes that were made are logical and addressed team needs. I hoped they would get someone a bit better than Yaz, but Yaz will serve his purpose. If the team stays healthy and production doesn't tank, there wasn't a lot that needed to be done. Anthopoulos is banking on good health and a return to form for Albies and Harris. Given that mindset, what's been done makes sense. I guess what I'm saying is that if everyone stays healthy and Harris and Albies rebound a bit, the needle will move forward on its own. It's not exactly an argument over semantics, but the moves in and of themselves aren't what will make or break the Braves.
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I hope Ozzie and Mike rebound but there is so much data that im afraid shows they are what they are.
I’d love a impact SP but still feel as if our offense needs more improvement.
I still have PTSD from the 1st half when Ozuna was about the only thing positive in the lineup.
Hopefully I’m wrong and all the guys that have regressed the past two seasons rebound but I’d rather go overboard fortifying the offense then bank on Murphy/Ozzie/Harris to not be who’ve they been for 2 years now.
 
Enscheff said:
AA up until a couple years ago. Almost everything the Dodgers and Rays do. What the As used to do. The Brewers when they stole Contreras and continue to build competitive teams. Every single time a team benefits from waiting to scoop up players whose market crashed.

How many more examples do you need?

Paying market rate for Mike Yastrzemski is not a good move, no matter how big the hole was he filled. It is a very basic move that any professional GM could make. There is nothing remarkable about seeing the Braves needed a new SS, and then paying a quality SS to fill that massive hole. Again, it’s literally a move any GM should make. The very definition of “average”. And for some reason, people are equating average with bad or an insult…like they don’t understand the meaning of the word.

In fact, allowing that massive hole at SS to linger so long is a negative created by the same GM people want to credit for fixing the hole he was responsible for creating and allowed to linger for years.
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Lol.

The Dodgers are most certainly not acquiring players at below market rates, either in FA or in trades. They are neither developing young stars, nor are they consistently finding undervalued talent on the FA/trade market. They are spending money like a drunken sailor to sustain their success. Granted, they are hitting on all of their big money additions, but they aren't getting them at below market rates. Teoscar Hernandez was a good find in the 2023 offseason, but then they turned right around and gave him a market rate deal and he was.... not good this year to say the least. The only other significant player they have gotten on a below market deal is Max Muncy, but that was an extension.
 
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He definitely let the roster deficiencies fester for too long, but it’s also the worst-kept secret that AA had the rug pulled out from under him last year in terms of resources. That makes it hard to fully judge the last couple of seasons without factoring that in. The Billiam move, especially, was pretty brutal, but I’m guessing we’re in a better spot this offseason to make big-time moves if Alex was given more than $15M to work with last offseason. Semantics, I guess.
 
Calling moves average is not being negative. Calling moves minimal acceptable is not being negative.

I swear people don’t even bother to comprehend the words they read whenever it’s not blind homerism.
 
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