Atlanta Braves Off-Season tread

I agree with that. And I’m not a Dansby critic, I’m just being honest and stating facts. I still like the kid, I still pull for him to find consistency, I get people enjoying his hustle and enthusiasm, I get people still liking his potential, but all things considered he hasn’t been very good and we’re talking about three full seasons now. He has a career OPS of .703, a career wRC+ of 79, and for all the raving about his defense he has a negative career UZR/150, and a career WAR of 3.7 after three and a third years. I’m just pointing that out because you aren’t going to see our writers say it, and our announcers aren’t going to take their mouths off his root, they act like he’s a god. So I think it’s completely fair to say he’s had a really long leash so far with no end in sight, and be a little bothered by that while at the same time we’re talking about spending $100M for a desperate upgrade at another position. Where it’s very questionable if we need to be that desperate.

Complaining about it isn’t going to change anything, but neither is complaining about Snitker in general, Snitkers overuse of his starters, Snitkers love for Markakis and Flowers, his use of Luke Jackson, our pitch sequence patterns, and so on and so on, but we do that on a daily basis. It’s 90% of the posts here. It’s just people venting, that’s part of what this is all for. As long as someone backs up their complaints with some facts I think anything should be fair game.

I still don’t like just having Lindor for just two years. Maybe we can sign him when he’s a FA, he’s just 26 now. I like the idea of that a lot more than signing JD now. Of course the problem will be Lindor will want 7-8 years. But maybe he’s a guy you do that for given his age and abilities.

Cleveland does a good job with pitchers, too, so the pitchers (I'm assuming it would take 2 of our pitching prospects) we trade to them would probably become stars. That would suck, and is frankly my biggest fear in making trades. I would assume it's also the biggest fear of those who actually make those trades. 

We play our first spring training game on February 22nd! It seems like we start earlier every year, which I don't mind at all.

I am thinking the JD decision will not be made until the Kris Bryant ruling is decided.

Well usually it just becomes a vehicle to hate on Swanson, which is fine.. but I did address that. It's obvious they have very different expectations for what they want from 3rd base. They are hard core old school accepting whatever they get from a SS bat, but wanting a power bat at 3rd. Everybody should get that by now. No big deal but I just don't see the point of saying the same thing over and over.

I just want to know what option we are going to go with at 3rd base.

I get we do repeat things about Snitker, but I rarely bring up Snitker when talking about JD vs Bryant vs internal options at 3rd base.

Looks like the Braves are hell-bent on bringing back Badhaircut. We will regret this...........

www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/01/latest-on-josh-donaldson-3.html

Looks like the buddy/buddy runs deep with AA, too, so he fits right in the ATL. By the way, Austin Riley? Johan Camargo? Screw you guys!