2025-2026 offseason thread

[Metaphysicist]

I am going to take a bold stance and say I think paying market value to fill an obvious hole is good, actually.

 

[Enscheff]

It’s average, the equivalent of paying for gas at the closest gas station when your tank was on empty. If you had access to the Braves checkbook you could have pulled it off. There is nothing notable about such a move.

 

[Super]

1/$20m for Kim is not market value.
Getting Dubón for Allen was not market value.
By $/WAR, Yaz was signed below market value.
Iglesias is probably only here because he wasn’t dealt at the deadline.

The thinking and “analysis” is a bit too simple.

 

[CyYoung31]

You heard it here first. If you have the means to pay market rate, you too can sign any free agent you want.

 

[Metaphysicist]

In my second controversial take, I will suggest it is good to fill up your gas tank for the normal amount when it is empty.

 

[zbhargrove]

Tyler Kinley resigned... could be a nasty pen

 

[bravesnumberone]

That’s acceptable.

 

[jpx7]

Really short Braves career for Ken Waldichuk.

 

[The Tariff King]

Tyler Kinley resigned... could be a nasty pen

Just controversial takes everywhere.

 

[CrimsonCowboy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2010102243178201390

 

[bravesnumberone]

In all seriousness, the pitching staff is now beyond crowded with 13 available spots.

 

[Tapate50]

Man I must have tuned out before this guy got in.

Don’t remember him much

 

[Enscheff]

Reading between the lines a bit…

You don’t pay the last guy in the BP $3M unless you know you can also afford the needed SP. I’d expect this means AA has his SP acquisition cost set.

 

[bravesnumberone]

Reading between the lines a bit…

You don’t pay the last guy in the BP $3M unless you know you can also afford the needed SP. I’d expect this means AA has his SP acquisition cost set.

That and hopefully he feels confident he can unload Bummer’s salary.

 

[The Tariff King]

AA is going to make a lot of people happy when he doesn't acquire another starter and we go in to spring training with what we have now. Lol

 

[Strike3urout]

It depends - is a “damn thing” the bare minimum thing? And is that a “good” amount of thing, or at least “acceptable?”

If so, then you haven’t missed anything other than UNC’s insistence on sending pictures of his phallus to any and all interested parties.

Define „interested parties“

 

[bravesnumberone]

AA is going to make a lot of people happy when he doesn't acquire another starter and we go in to spring training with what we have now. Lol

I feel like it’s gonna be Bassitt/Giolito and then Ozuna as a late-inning PH, couple starts a week at DH if there’s a favorable lefty matchup.

 

[zbhargrove]

Man I must have tuned out before this guy got in.

Don’t remember him much

He was absolute filth from when the Braves traded for him at the deadline until the end of the season: 25 innings, 0.72 ERA with a 2.71 xERA, 2.74 FIP

 

[CyYoung31]

I was told that it was time to start panicking when the Braves non-tendered Kinley.

 

[jpx7]

I was told that it was time to start panicking when the Braves non-tendered Kinley.

That was a signal they had no money. This is a signal they still have money. Either way we should be panicking.