re: The ATL Thread: Offseason

Don't worry guys, we'll be fine with Drew Smyly squaring off against Walker Buehler with the season on the line!

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AA

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A team in our division, the team that eliminated us and a young team that made the playoffs last season all made significant big money moves to get better this offseason.

...we signed Charlie Morton to a one year deal and have yet to re-sign our second best player from our best team post-Bobby Cox.

There is zero defense for what AA is doing right now. Players report for spring training in less than a month.

I mean, obviously if he band-aids and scrapes his way to a WS it's a huge feather in his cap, but this has to be a $$$ thing, right?

We were never getting Bauer, anyone who thought that was naive. So it doesn't necessarily bother me that "we lost out" to the Dodgers on Bauer.

What bothers me is all these teams getting better around us, while we got negligibly better at best with the Morton signing, but could also argue we're significantly worse if we don't re-sign Ozuna or bring in a bat that can replace his production.

They are going to have to bring in a bat without a doubt. If they don’t add anyone else that’s obviously a failure but I haven’t really even considered that. They are ~$25 million under last season’s payroll and literally don’t have 3B/LF (whichever Riley isn’t playing) filled yet. Don’t even have an option to not add anybody. Seems to be just a question of who it will be. My best guess is it will be Turner but maybe Ozuna or somebody they trade for.

I sound like a broken record, but we have to go into win now mode.

We were one game away from the World Series, where we probably would've won it. You can't preach financial flexibility for the past 2-3 years then not capitalize on that flexibility when you were that close to accomplishing the ultimate goal.

4 years $65 million. $15 million option in the 5th year.

Do it now

It’s done.

Braves official account tweeted it.

I will gladly eat crow on this one. Well done AA!