2025-2026 offseason thread

[bravesnumberone]

What benefit does he gain from doing winter ball? Is he going to try to pull an Ohtani and try out pitching? No? Then get the fuck outta here with that. The Braves shouldn’t be having to hold their breath when he’s playing games that aren’t for the organization paying him.

 

[Hudson2]

What benefit does he gain from doing winter ball? Is he going to try to pull an Ohtani and try out pitching? No? Then get the fuck outta here with that. The Braves shouldn’t be having to hold their breath when he’s playing games that aren’t for the organization paying him.

Yep. He gets hurt and the Braves are the only ones that lose. You can't replace his production.

 

[CyYoung31]

What benefit does he gain from doing winter ball? Is he going to try to pull an Ohtani and try out pitching? No? Then get the fuck outta here with that. The Braves shouldn’t be having to hold their breath when he’s playing games that aren’t for the organization paying him.

Exactly.

It was fine when he was a kid and wasn’t recently recovered from a 2nd devastating knee injury, keep him happy and let him do what he wants. Now, he needs to grow up and do what’s best for him and the team.

 

[Carp]

That’s dumb. MLB teams have every right to protect their most valuable assets.

Also, from reading that, seems like the Braves would have grounds to cite injury as a reason to not allow him ti participate if they wanted to.

They might have grounds. But MLBPA would likely fight it. And there is something to be said about not pissing off your franchise player.

I Imagine he asked, we advised against it but didn't want to deal with the fall out of trying to stop him.