re: ATL Thread | offseason hot takes + discussion

Adrianza signed to a minor league deal, but will only make $1m if he makes the MLB roster, which means he'll likely make the MLB roster.

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How much is beintidi wanting? He would be a good fit.

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He just got 5/$75M from the White Sox. Holy shite. That's wayyyyy more than I thought he was worth.

He also lost his grandad on Sunday, the day after his wedding.

You Dansby fanboys are something else. Dansby sucked in the playoffs more than he didn’t. And the Braves will win more games next year without him than with him last year.

As for him being this so called “winner”, please. He went to the premier baseball college and then the Braves. No kidding he’s won a lot of games. He’s had a silver spoon in his mouth since high school. I cant wait until he signs with a team where he isn’t surrounded by studs. Then let’s see what he does. Whoever signs him will regret it by June let alone in years from now.

While it would be great to see Swanson return, I’d rather see the $20-25 million used on 3-4 players…Andrus and Conforto. Or maybe Matt Carpenter. Heck, bring Craig Kimbrel back.

AA spoke briefly at a big $ charity event that my brother in law was able to attend. No phones, everything was supposed to be off the record, etc. Nothing groundbreaking and nothing really about specific players but they had a short Q&A apparently and AA was asked some philosophical questions.

He mentioned that when he arrived he went several years without trading any top notch prospects. Indicated several reasons for that. 1. Wanted to get to know the system. 2. Didn’t think big league club was close enough to WS to subtract future core guys in trades. Mentioned those 19-22 year olds who could be future all stars are most valuable currency when building even if only small portion become that. Risk of trading wrong guy not worth it unless you’re knocking right on door of title. 3. And most interestingly he said when you have an elite farm like what he was lucky enough to inherit it makes getting proper value in trades very tough. Mentioned that Austin Riley was ranked by some as their 9th-10th best prospect behind Acuña, Albies, Fried, Soroka, etc. and he was being comped in trade discussions to other teams 9th best prospect who may have been a future AAAA guy and wouldn’t even crack their top 30. Mentioned that a team (I assume Marlins/Realmuto) was asking for Albies, Anderson, Riley for a star player and they ended up trading to another org for similar ranked players within that org but for Braves it would have been more like their 4th, 10th and 20th guys.

Also mentioned that with their window wide open and farm needing a lot of help that they can squeeze a lot more value out of their “#1 guy” in some discussions even if he is equal to what might have been their 14th guy when he got there. Replenishing the farm will be done through international market and draft and when next wave arrives they will treat it as they always have and give those guys a chance at big league level but for now in many instances using player development to supplement big league roster through trades is going to be better use. Makes me think they may not be done dealing guys even if it means totally wiping out Shuster/Shewmake etc.

Dansby finalizing deal to the cubs

7 for 177

As soon as AA said Ron reached out to him to say grissom looked great I knew they were trying to spin it and knew he wasn’t coming back