2025-2026 offseason thread

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bravesnumberone said:
Schwellenbach’s injury creates a situation where we don’t just need a starter in the Bassitt/Giolito tier but now one higher up who could be a 2, even function as a 1 when Sale inevitably sneezes and breaks a shoulder. I don’t really care how deep they think the bullpen is. Relying on the bullpen to go 5 innings a night is not going to hold up over 162.
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If we knew what strider was throwing it would help out decision making. He's still way down like last season, there's really no reason to go all-in on this season. If he back, I might would lose the pick for gallen. Gallen is probably the only guy left with potential to upgrade the staff imo
 
1 of the 6 actual MLB SP options is already out due to injury. Holmes will be having TJ within a couple months, just like every other pitcher who tries to rehab a partially torn elbow. Lopez will have shoulder issues for the rest of his career as a SP, just like every other pitcher who has had multiple shoulder issues. That leaves 3 actual MLB SPs, each with their own significant issues. It is pure and utter stupidity to plan for any other scenario.

The Braves need a legit MLB SP, and he doesn't have to be a TOR guy. He needs to be a guy who can competently cover innings so this team can actually make it to October.
 
My thing is, and this is just hindsight by me since I don’t get paid to know these things, but shouldn’t have bone spurs been an assumption with a dude who literally broke his elbow 8 months ago? Did they do X-rays and didn’t see anything until after he said he felt discomfort? Wouldn’t it been wise just do a new preemptive scope in the off-season? Did the bone spurs not occur until now despite the bone being broken for a long?

These are questions.
 
Enscheff said:
1 of the 6 actual MLB SP options is already out due to injury. Holmes will be having TJ within a couple months, just like every other pitcher who tries to rehab a partially torn elbow. Lopez will have shoulder issues for the rest of his career as a SP, just like every other pitcher who has had multiple shoulder issues. That leaves 3 actual MLB SPs, each with their own significant issues. It is pure and utter stupidity to plan for any other scenario.

The Braves need a legit MLB SP, and he doesn't have to be a TOR guy. He needs to be a guy who can competently cover innings so this team can actually make it to October.
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I am more confident in the backend depth of the rotation than I was last year. The problem is the lack of top of the rotation depth that is required for all of the reasons you mentioned.

If Sale and Strider were workhorses with no injury concerns, I could justify waiting mid year in case bigger needs arise. It’s not inconceivable that these other injury risk guys end up on the 60 day IL before we break camp for predictable reasons.
 
CyYoung31 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2021995384583647483

This is in response to the owners proposing a $240 million salary cap. We’re in trouble.
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Player’s Association is at real risk of losing the PR war. Every baseball fan I know is disgusted with the payroll disparity (both at the top and bottom end).

A salary cap system doesn’t need to mean players make less money. Align on the revenue split and peg the cap and floor accordingly.
 
chop2chip said:
Player’s Association is at real risk of losing the PR war. Every baseball fan I know is disgusted with the payroll disparity (both at the top and bottom end).

A salary cap system doesn’t need to mean players make less money. Align on the revenue split and peg the cap and floor accordingly.
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The PR war doesn't really matter -- arguably one of Marvin Miller's biggest insights, and one that Donald Fehr played out in the 90s, is that fans yelling at players doesn't move the needle. Fehr literally flipped off a fan at a Yankees game who held up a derogatory sign in his direction. All that really matters is if the players can stay unified and hold up. I don't have a ton of faith in the modern MLBPA leadership, but a salary cap is the unifying issue for players.
 
I want a salary cap and floor, and I hope the owners hold out for it... even if it's till the dodgers have paid off all their deferred money
 
the players losing the PR war doesn't matter, without them there is no MLB

and frankly they lost the PR war a long time ago, it's insane the mental gymnastics the average fan will do to avoid blaming owners for underspending
 
chop2chip said:
Player’s Association is at real risk of losing the PR war. Every baseball fan I know is disgusted with the payroll disparity (both at the top and bottom end).

A salary cap system doesn’t need to mean players make less money. Align on the revenue split and peg the cap and floor accordingly.
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NFL has twice as many players and they manage to make it work with cap only about 20% higher than the proposed cap here.

Make a hard floor about 20% lower than the cap and that would fix 90% of the issues we see.
 
Carp said:
NFL has twice as many players and they manage to make it work with cap only about 20% higher than the proposed cap here.

Make a hard floor about 20% lower than the cap and that would fix 90% of the issues we see.
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If Florida, Tampa, Cleveland, Pitt, Minny, CO, etc, are suddenly forced to spend 80-100 million more, the players are not going to find themselves lacking for money.
 
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