re: The ATL Thread | Offseason Edition

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Good organizations don't get rid of coaches after one bad year.

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That would be fine logic if you didn’t also think pretty much every player on the team is top 2 or 3 at their position

In Homer fantasyland it’s an awful job, he got handed the best lineup in baseball and even before the injuries they were bad.

In the real world he wasn’t able to get much out of some very talented but historically streaky hitters. I think firing him has to be on the table if he doesn’t have a solid plan to fix it next year, but there is an air of complacency at all levels of this org.

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Snit is done.

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Snit's already said that he's coming back.

I can't believe Bummer's option is over $7M.

Solid guy in the pen, no doubt, but more expensive than I thought he'd be.

I am constantly amazed by how lucrative it is to be a modestly productive lefty reliever in the MLB

I’ll get the payroll updated in the OP tonight.

Just finished updating all the CBT salaries.

Some of the spotrac numbers are a little off.

By my calculations we finished the year with a $278.53 million luxury tax payroll this season and we will pay about $12.46 million in taxes.


We have $228.4 million in luxury tax salaries on the book going into next season assuming we non tender Laureano, Ynoa, Biggio and White.

We will enter the offseason $50 million under our end of year payroll for this year but only $12 million under the luxury tax threshold. This will be our third straight year over the tax so we will pay $0.50 in tax for every $1 we spend on salaries after the first $12 million spent this offseason.

If payroll increases as AA indicated today we are likely looking at a $300 million+ CBT payroll including the taxes.

David Fletcher ($7M) is the only albatross on the books and that’s remaining from the Kelenic maneuvering. Pierce Johnson ($7.13M) and Sean Murphy ($12.17M) are probably the worst contracts of players who will be on the OD roster.

Ozuna ($16M) and Soler ($12.13M) are the only real trade candidates of the 8 figure guys if you’re trying to create some flexibility.

We added about $40M from 23 to 24 in actual payroll. $30M in salary obligations and $10M more in tax payments.

$206M actual payroll and $3M in tax in 2023 and $236M actual payroll and $12.5M tax in 2024.

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I am constantly amazed by how lucrative it is to be a modestly productive lefty reliever in the MLB

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I completely forgot he was a southpaw.

Picking up that option was a no-brainer.

What bad contract could we trade Murphy for? Was thinking Bae but the Cubs don’t need a catcher. But then again, neither did we and still added one.
And the Cubs would have to throw in a lot of cash.