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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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I don't think we've synced yet. I meant The Dodgers being in as bad or worse shape gives me no comfort, hence..''hooray, hooray, we're all going to die'', sarcasm intended, but not sardonic.
It will be muy interesante to see how the Bravos approach this off - season. May be time (or close to time) to let a top prospect go (or two) to get the player we want - OF or P. With the longest two minutes in sport retiring, we need a starting catcher pretty obviously. Don't think there is one in the system at present.
Yeah, nobody in the system you’d be excited about in the MLB for next year right now. We have 2 higher rated guys but neither projected to be ready for 2020. That’s a clear spot we could upgrade.
We do have 2 high level, potentially ready next year, outfield prospects in Pache and Waters. That’s convenient because we need corner outfielders desperately bad, as well as for ender to hopefully be good Ender.
We have Kyle Wright and Ian Anderson as our last remaining best bets to become high level starters. Although Kyle Wright failed pretty hard with the Braves this year.
The farm system is still pretty good, just not elite right now. We won’t need it quite as bad with some of our best players being young and controlled for a while, now would be a decent time to try and trade for a top tier player.
Also haven’t heard it mentioned just how much money we will have to throw around in free Agency. We could lose Donaldson Julio Kuechel Mccan Cervelli, Swarzak, potentially Markakis and Flowers with team options, Joyce, Tomlin, Oday. We Likely will have around 70-80 million to play with....
Obviously we will probably bring back a few of those guys, but we have a lot of flexibility with a great core in place. This needs to be the Front Office’s best off season in year, fan frustration is really high right now.
I don't recall Liberty Media being at all transparent about what they are willing to spend. I think we can assume it will be less than other teams with our level of revenue though.
That is based off this years payroll
It's been the MO of Liberty. They might change, but it seems unlikely. The team is a purely business investment for them.
They're actually completely uninvolved period. I think I've heard they can't infuse payroll either once you're in season. So, they're a standby that does nothing.
They will probably set a budget again and will want to try to avoid using 15-20 million of it until the deadine. So, it might be 1 big deal period.
That is somewhat true. The payroll is set by Liberty in Denver though. Braves' management is allotted a budget. They won't come right out and admit it though. I used to trade stocks and it was like pulling teeth to get their investor relations officer to admit as much.
Yeah you’re right, Liberty is very hands off.
Who would you like to see us go after?
They are hands off as far as how the money is spent once allocated, but they control the budget.
The thing that I know is they will not do what most want or most would guess.
I'd like to not see a full on catching platoon again. I almost want Grandal more than Donaldson.
Almost being the key word. I know having Donaldson didn't help Freddie against St. Louis but he was critical to winning the division.
Just think, we could be hosting game 1 tonight against the Nats......
Snitker is NL manager of the year. They must not take the post season into account.