hoping we're saving the kakes re-signing announcement for christmas day. will be a nice gift for Stone Cold Steve Austin and i
Anybody have this from Baseball America about international players we’ll sign when it opens next month? Believe we have half of our normal amount, first time it’s been remotely interesting in years because of penalties. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/atlanta-braves-2020-21-international-signing-preview/
padres get snell must be nice to have a gm who isn’t too chickenshit to pull the trigger on a blockbuster
For the upcoming 2020-21 signing period that's now delayed until Jan. 15, 2021, the Braves face their final year of penalties, with their bonus pool reduced by 50 percent of their original allocation. The Braves also lost $1 million from their bonus pool in January 2020 when they signed free agent outfielder Marcell Ozuna, who turned down a qualifying offer from the Cardinals. With MLB also freezing the aggregate bonus pools at the 2019 levels, that leaves the Braves with a $1,572,000 pool, the lowest in baseball by a significant margin. Particularly damaging for the Braves is that MLB also changed the rules in March so that teams are no longer allowed to trade their bonus pool space. Until MLB changed that rule during the pandemic, teams were allowed to trade for an additional 60 percent of their original pool allocation, so the Braves could have traded up to get a $2,515,200 pool. MLB changing the rules in March to prohibit bonus pool trades has affected several clubs and players, but it hits particularly hard for the Braves, who are limited to the $1,572,000 amount. So rather than being able to sign two of the top players in the class, the Braves will probably only be able to land one, with Dominican shortstop Yeferson Tineo now expected to sign with the Rangers instead of the Braves. The big name the Braves are expected to sign now is Ambioris Tavarez, a shortstop from the Dominican Republic, with a bonus expected to take nearly all of Atlanta's pool space. Tavarez stood out for his bat speed, raw power and strong arm, with a lot of scouts projecting a position change in his future, possibly to third base or a corner outfield spot.
Padres being good is good for us. The more games they split the better our chance for home field advantage. I wish we had ownership who actually watched the games
Padres agree with Darvish. Really going for it with their young talent. They are going to feel real stupid when the Br*ves win the World Series with B/C free agents and a farm system full of wasted top 100 prospects turn rule 5 candidates while they have nothing but expensive contracts
I don't LOVE this. Mets acquire Francisco Lindor, Carlos Carrasco in six-player blockbuster trade with Cleveland https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...-six-player-blockbuster-trade-with-cleveland/
if taking 30+ million of Lindor/Carrasco takes them out of Springer or Bauer then it won’t be as bad.
braves are world series caliber but our gm is too scared to go all in. not that i am saying we shoulda traded for him just that the padres are going all in while we twiddle our thumbs
100%. at some point you gotta push the chips in. he won’t do it tho so we’ll be stuck in purgatory for the duration of his career