re: The ATL Thread | Offseason Edition

I thought the Braves were done bumming me out in 2024, but here we are.

I care because letting him walk made the team we were directly competing with for NL supremacy get significantly better, and we got worse. Think about it, that move involved the two teams who had made the NLCS the last two years. It also set the precedent that AA's Braves will let anyone who is nearing 30 go into the open market. He outsmarted himself by worrying about extending our playoff window by a couple of more years by getting a player slightly younger in Olson, but hurt our World Series window by replacing an MVP-level player in his prime with a lesser player – and that's not me shitting on Olson, who is a good player, it's just that Freddie is the best 1B in the game.

Kind of like with the Contreras for Murphy deal, it was a questionable move at the time even without the hindsight. With hindsight, it looks downright stupid now.

Freddie gave us every opportunity in the 2020 offseason to re-sign him and then we still could've had him in the open market in 2021 if we gave him the extra year. Hubris got in the way and now, like you said, Freddie is in a much better situation, but it's at our expense... that sucks.

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I think it's safe to say AA is going to go get a starter this offseason. Should be plenty of interesting options available. Does he go get someone like Nate Eovaldi? Maybe take a shot on big upside and give someone like Walker Buehler a one year deal?

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Shane Beiber on a one-year prove it deal would also be right up AA's alley

I think COVID plus lockout really screwed it up.

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We look like buffoons.

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I get the sentiment, but what guarantees would've we had that Freddie would've produced the way he did?

Same dude that had a .377 ops in the nlcs?

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It didn't help that Liberty told him they were going to hold off on raising the payroll until they saw how the COVID recovery would play out.

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I'm about 99.9% sure I've seen you (and 100% sure I've seen other people) say that Liberty has nothing to do with the team. (they absolutely do, for the record, and they are why when this team has to be torn down its going to be very painful and take a long, long time).

Certain people up in their feelings ITT RN.

We can all cheer for Freddie the person w/o getting all bent out of shape about him leaving. What happened, happened. Nobody's mind is going to be changed this far down the road. Let's pull for Freddie and be happy for him.

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Certain people up in their feelings ITT RN.

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When Freddie left, you called him soft and immature while saying he would never reach the same success that he did with the Braves.