Letting Freddie walk made me think that they were surely all in on dansby. So at this point I don’t expect dansby walking to mean fried will get signed.
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Cohen really rage spent and is still trying to throw more money around.
This is gonna blow up spectacularly for us. Again.
7 years $177 Mil full no trade for Dansby from the Cubs.
Still need to move Ozuna.
Roll with Grissom/Arcia at SS.
Go get a LF
That would be great if Ozzie can handle it. He seems to have a weak arm and long motion though.
Jose iglesias is another decent option.
I wish we could swing a trade for Ahmed Rosario with one of Shuster/Ian/elder. Only 1 year of control left for Rosario, so it would take more than Rosario
I would think he would handle it fine, he was expected to be at SS and Swanson at 2B when they were coming up. It was a surprise when they switched it, reportedly due to concerns that the occasional lazy throw from Albies was outweighing his otherwise superior range and arm compared to Dansby.
Andrelton Simmons is a FA. Only 33, but man he hit bad last year. I'm still fine with it on a one year deal. Gives time for VG in AAA, then reevaluate.
Braves won’t be winning the east this yr. And prolly not in the postseason. Had a chance to reel of a 2 outta 5, 3 outta 7 type run but AA or higher ups wonts allow it to happen. The way Freddie and dansby were handled sheds a negative light on the front office IMO.
It appears they are looking at money and analytics more than locker room value. Which is unfortunate because with the way snit manages the locker room aspect plays a bigger role. I’ll gladly be wrong about this but I don’t have high hopes. At least they did get one championship outta the deal.
Why lock up albies, acuna, Harris with affordable deals to then NOT turn that into dansby or Freddie long term? Not to mention losing fried after this yr.
I don't know, I think they have done a pretty good job outside of the Ozuna deal. That's what hurt us trying to keep Freddie or Dansby. Even if that was off the books we couldn't have kept both and stayed below the luxury tax. Which means more to the Braves for the international pool that effected us for a long while.
ETA. We also locked up Riley and Olson long term.
Freddie and Swanson are 2 different cases. Freddie screwed Freddie by having the wrong agent - who he subsequently fired after he found out he basically withheld the Braves offer.
I say this with all due respect to Dansby - he's one of my favorites, he went to the same high school I went to and his grandmother was my kindergarten teacher - he is an imminently replaceable player statistically. It took him until age 27 before he really had what I would call an impact season. And, at 29, a 7 year contract at that $177m looks to me like a risk for a guy who's career profile looks like Ian Desmond. I also don't know that he has been a clubhouse leader. Everything I have read says that Freddie was the guy, and in his void, Travis D'Arnaud actually took some reigns last season.
AA has made some great moves and put the Braves on a sustainable winning path. He has earned my trust for now.