Official official offseason thread

I'd be happier if I had any confidence that Griss' glove would be anything less than a disaster, especially with the shift being banned, I'd be happier. But this is scary. I'm not worried about his bat.
 
ChapHillMatt said:
Sign me up for grissom at SS. These contracts are stupid. Swanson would have to take less money to sign here. Not happening. There is a reason we win every yr, it’s because we trust our farm system and don’t tie ourselves into bad contracts like the ones teams have handed out this off-season. Grissom showed promise last yr. Not sure why people don’t like him. Still very young and could be a great player.
Click to expand...

I'd more worried about his glove than his bat, especially with the shift being banned.
 
Have it hope Wash can bring him along with the glove at this point. Dansby wasn’t great by any stretch when he first got up. But, Braves are trying to win now, can’t really afford a steep learning curve.
 
Grissom scares me with the glove and his foot work. I think his bat will be fine but we’ll be talking about how Dansby would have made that play all season long.
 
Hudson2 said:
Grissom scares me with the glove and his foot work. I think his bat will be fine but we’ll be talking about how Dansby would have made that play all season long.
Click to expand...

We'll make that comment on whoever we throw out there at this point. I just hope we aren't saying Arcia woulda made that play
 
$350M for Correa??? He’s a good player but holy f$&k. That will shoot Dansby’s contract up. Mercy.

Wonder what Andrelton is up to these days…
 
Heyward said:
Dont think either of Benintendi or Conforto cost what Dansby gets annually.
Click to expand...

We were planning to offer Dansby somewhere between 17-20M supposedly. Benintendi, I think, was projected around 14M when the offseason began. He is represented by Casey Close, who's going to be looking at the 8/160 contract Nimmo just got and be expecting Benintendi to get close to 100M over 5 or 6 years. Conforto is represented by Boras so I'd expect a short contract at a pretty high value.
 
In 2014, Seattle signed Robinson Cano to a 10 year, $240M deal at age 30. Front half of the deal looked fine - 5 WAR/yr. But Jerry Dipoto knew he was on borrowed time and dealt him to the Mets before the 2019 season. In the four years since then, he's made $72 million (and forfeited $24M with a PEDs suspension) and put up a sporty total WAR of 0.3. And the Mets will be paying him $24M in 2023.

I was for overpaying Dansby to keep the gang together, maybe take the 6-140M. Dude's gonna get 8+ years now and $25M per.

For me, there's not a big enough difference between Arcia/Iglesias/Andrus to make it useful to go after the latter two. Arcia is serviceable and looked like he might now hit a little bit. Still, very disappointing.

C'mon, Wash. And don't lie to me, hope Grissom's going to be decent with the glove.
 
bravesnumberone said:
I would have been willing to go to around 10/320 for Correa.

If I was AA, I might have anticipated the wild market and paid Dansby the 6/140, but not without significant heartburn. I'm not all that interested in Andrus/Iglesias. Maybe try to get A. Rosario in a cheap trade, but otherwise, invest in LF. We don't have a long-term answer there right now, and we might as well figure out if we have one in Grissom at short. Otherwise, it's pay too much for T. Anderson next winter or hope we can develop an international player quickly.
Click to expand...

I don't know if we have the prospect capital to make an Amed Rosario trade after the Murphy deal. Plus, think of the additional cost of adding a letter to the back of both his and Eddie's jerseys.
 
Correa is likely going be a bad contract when he gets to be 40. But people keep forgetting that if he does indeed start slowing down a good bit, they can easily put him at DH when he gets to be around 34 or 35, and he'll likely continue to hit pretty well.
 
Seeing how these contracts are going, and how teams are going more years/slightly less AAV to skirt the luxury tax, does AA circle back to Dansby with something like 10 years in the $180MM-$200MM range? Maybe even front loaded since the Braves apparently has more room in the actual payroll than it does to stay under the tax threshold?
 
50PoundHead said:
I don't know if we have the prospect capital to make an Amed Rosario trade after the Murphy deal. Plus, think of the additional cost of adding a letter to the back of both his and Eddie's jerseys.
Click to expand...

1 year of control left. Wonder how much he would command?
 
Hudson2 said:
Grissom scares me with the glove and his foot work. I think his bat will be fine but we’ll be talking about how Dansby would have made that play all season long.
Click to expand...

It was difficult to tell because he was playing a position at the major league level that he hadn't played much at the minor league level, but I agree that his reads and footwork didn't look that sharp in the field. He's young and it can be difficult to move to the other side of the infield, so I will give him a bit of a break, but he's more than likely a downgrade with the glove from what we've become used to seeing.
 
I definitely wouldn't advocate for trading a big prospect for A. Rosario, but I feel like there should be some pitching depth to draw from. Has he improved his defense?
 
msstate7 said:
1 year of control left. Wonder how much he would command?
Click to expand...

He's probably cheap and I thought going into the off-season, something like Muller-for-Rosario would have made sense for both parties, but Muller has left the building. I just don't know if we have someone of that profile in the system to make that deal. We do have Anderson, Shuster, Elder, and Soroka vying for the fifth starter slot, so maybe one of those. Salinas is also no longer a trade chip and while he's a ways away, I thought tossing him in at the end of the Murphy deal sweetened the pot a bit too much.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top