bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
I didn't miss many of those saves at the end of the season that moved the Braves out of the top five draft odds.
2025-2026 offseason thread
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Hudson2
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Most contenders would be I'd guess.
Just means if we want him we have to give him a little sweetener for him to waive it.
Players do this with contending teams that might be a fit in order to get a little extra cash.
Doesn’t mean it can’t happen, but does make it a little more complicated
I don’t know its only an 8 team list
They also do that with teams they have no interest playing for. We’d probably be looking for Texas to pay down on his contract to begin with so I’m not sure what kind of sweetener we’d be throwing in.
bravesnumberone
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82 days until pitchers and catchers report. Today would be a great day for AA to continue improving the actual MLB roster.
Not saying it’s not the case, I just really doubt seager is opposed to playing in Atlanta.
Hudson2
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I agree. Like there's 20+ other teams you'd rather play for that suck? I'm not buying it. But if the Rangers paid some of the contract I'd be all in on Seager.
steveAKAslick
Mashin' to Mississippi
They just signed White, Wentz and Dubon to one year deals
Nothing on Dylan Lee yet
Nothing on Dylan Lee yet
UNCBlue012
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Based on this, we’re realistically talking about roughly $25M–$45M to work with, assuming they keep around $10M set aside for the trade deadline. So, with the payroll almost certain to clear the $244M tier-one threshold and potentially push up toward the $264M second tier, we’re likely looking at adding a mid-rotation starter, an OF/DH bat and a bullpen arm, with the option to fill one of those needs via trade instead of free agency.
Why would you ignore the luxury tax number. I’d think that’s more important than the actual payroll number
chop2chip
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Braves have gone over the luxury tax in the past. What seems to matter more the team is actual payroll number, especially since the luxury tax was just reset.
My pure speculation is that the only reason we cared about the luxury number before was due to nature of all the extensions. Early on those extensions were being paid such that the actual payroll was much lower than the luxury tax number associated with those contracts. So the penalties paid by the Braves were just another expense added to the actual payroll. Now that the luxury tax hit for those contracts are less than the actual payroll, the Braves are unlikely to come close to even the lowest tier.
I'm estimating the final payroll will be $230M-$250M, which will lead to a luxury tax number below the first tier of $244M.
UNCBlue012
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We'll see what happens! All of the assuming is silly anyway, given most of the board seems to take that shit as Gospel.