Official 2024 Off-Season Thread!

CJ9 said:
Mark Feinsand wrote this at MLB.com.


One industry insider predicted that even after acquiring Jarred Kelenic from the Mariners and signing Joe Jiménez, Reynaldo López and Pierce Johnson for a combined $70.3 million, the Braves aren’t done.

“The Braves have another big move in them,” the source said, adding that Atlanta GM Alex Anthopoulos “is lathered up.”
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"Lathered up" should never be used in this context. lmao.
 
CJ9 said:
Mark Feinsand wrote this at MLB.com.


One industry insider predicted that even after acquiring Jarred Kelenic from the Mariners and signing Joe Jiménez, Reynaldo López and Pierce Johnson for a combined $70.3 million, the Braves aren’t done.

“The Braves have another big move in them,” the source said, adding that Atlanta GM Alex Anthopoulos “is lathered up.”
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Sounds like a guy I'd like to play poker with
 
Jaw said:
If you guys see a Royals fan, make sure to give them a hug. They need it.
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I am very glad those rumors of the Braves pursuing Dayton Moore during the various GM transitions in the mid-10's never came to fruition. Imagine this franchise with Moore at the helm instead of Anthopolous.
 
MadduxFanII said:
I am very glad those rumors of the Braves pursuing Dayton Moore during the various GM transitions in the mid-10's never came to fruition. Imagine this franchise with Moore at the helm instead of Anthopolous.
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If Moore had been a GM in the late 80's through the mid to late 90s, he'd probably be a hall of famer. He's an analog GM and is excellent at being an analog GM, but it's a digital world. His way of doing things was obsoleted.
 
I think we are definitely going to be trading Gonzalez, and probably Iglesias too. We're up against the 2nd Luxury tax level and I doubt AA has the clearance to go much (if any) over that. For that reason, here is a couple of ideas I have floated around.

Option 1: Raisel Iglesias, Bryce Elder, Vaughn Grissom, Marco Gonzalez and cash to the Rays for Tyler Glasnow and filler. Money is basically a wash this year. Maybe we eat a little of Iglesias's contract in 2025 as well. May have to swap AJSS for Elder. It's hard to peg Glasnow's price given his injury history so this is just spit-balling

Option 2: Marco Gonzalez, Raisel Iglesias and around 8 million in cash to the Orioles for whatever we can get. This is a complete salary dump for us but gives the O's a good closer to replace Bautista and a back end starter for around 20 million total for 2024. We use the freed up money to either sign a pitcher like Stroman/E-Rod, or we trade for Glasnow/Burnes/Cease/etc.
 
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striker42 said:
If Moore had been a GM in the late 80's through the mid to late 90s, he'd probably be a hall of famer. He's an analog GM and is excellent at being an analog GM, but it's a digital world. His way of doing things was obsoleted.
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He’s at least gone to a somewhat analytical team in the Rangers. Maybe he’s gone there to learn some analytics since he works in the FO there now.
 
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