Official ATL Braves 2022 Tread

After 17 pro seasons, the Brave’s all-time Triple-A hits leader Sean Kazmar Jr, has announced his retirement from baseball.

And he has a ring

not terribly surprising if it is true. He's played above his previous contract payout. $200mill may be a bit high for LM's liking. If it were me, I'd agree to 6/200.

Perhaps they can meet somewhere around 6/185 like Hart suggests, or 6/190. I think those would be close enough to get Freeman to sign. I mean heck, an extra $10-$15 mil ain't that much of a difference for someone with an already healthy bank acct.

5/135 seems like a low ball offer. I can see 6/180 or even try at 5/150. Freddie should get 30 mil per. Just the market and the value of the player.

Hope this does not become a Jon Lester situation that turned out bad in Boston back in 2014. They made a very low ball offer to him in his prime for 4 yrs and they lost some prime yrs for what was their best pitcher and important franchise icon at the time.

Two yrs later they covered that mistake with that bad 7 yr David Price contract which they are still half paying with he pitching for LAD.

Now, I know the Braves will not operate that way.  

I know this is not a Red Sox forum but there are some similarities. Freddie well, one thing you do not want to do is disrespect him.

And we have no suitable replacement in house. Do they want to get one of those one yr stop gaps?

If Freddie gets say one of those monster 8 yr deals elsewhere I will not feel so bad about saying adios but if its over say, 5 yrs instead of 6 I will question why.

I just do not want to go back to the days when it was a revolving door at first and had the Robert Ficks and other journeymen types yr in and yr out 

It was a rough run at first between Andres Galaraga and Freddie most of us remember that edit - Texiera was the one exception in that decade

6/$170? If I were the Braves, I'd get really creative with this contract. Backloading, paying him after he's done playing, etc., that type of thing. I mean, if he really wants to be a Brave for life, there's plenty of ways to make that happen.

If the Braves HAVE to go to plan B and I hope they do not, the best plan B is to trade for Matt Olson and I would offer alot

Other teams will offer alot for him and he is controlable for 2 more yrs

I would allow them to take as many as 4 players from the farm save for Langeliers, Harris, Elder and Mueller. There might be a couple more guys you positively do not want to trade.

I would even let them have Waters and Pache - I like Pache but as mentioned Snitker is not the type of manager who would use a guy like Pache to the best of his abilities.

I would even consider moving Rich Rod whom I like but obviously he is not going to be used here. At least not used in the situations we thought he would be when he was traded for.

Guess I would offer Waters, Pache, Tucker Davidson and Rich Rod. Throw in Touki or Ynoa if I have to

I really hope they do not go something like 4/60 for a declining Anthony Rizzo.  I would pass on him and Brandon Belt should take the QO from SF - would not want to give up the draft choice associated with him.  I think he will take it.  

Yeah, if Freddie wants to break the bank, there are probably better ways to spend that much money. Just because he turned down 5/$135 doesn't mean he wants to break the bank, though. It just means he didn't like that offer. Maybe he wants to leave. Who knows?