Braves Offseason

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stinger78 said:
I keep hearing they want to avoid 3rd year of CBT. Then go after it again next season.
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We are about $20 million under the CBT though. It seems like we could get a player for less than that AAV and have some wiggle room left over at the trade deadline. I'm still expecting us to make one splash move.
 
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I don't think AA went into the off-season with the plan to get below the 1st CBT threshold, but that may be what ends up happening. He went out of his way back in November to move salary (not CBT hit, but salary) out of 2025 into 2026. He picked up Reynaldo Lopez's 2027 team option 2 years before he needed to in exchange for Lopez moving 2025 salary into 2026, and he picked up Aaron's Bummer's 2025 and 2026 team options in exchange for Bummer reducing his 2025 salary from $7.25M to $3.5M and agreeing to a $9.5M salary in 2026. Neither of those moves helped the CBT at all, but they did move a total of $7M from 2025 to 2026. And, as THWG pointed out, they are sitting $24M below the 1st threshold right now, plenty of room to make a decent pickup and still leave in-season wiggle room to stay below the 1st threshold. Either there is a payroll crunch for 2025 that hasn't been publicized (I doubt this is the explanation), or my belief is that AA had someone(s) targeted back in November, but he was unable to close out those deals.
 
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And we get Jurickson Profar!! Big get imo. Stabilizes the outfield at a relatively cheap cost. Now we just need to get a starter and a reliever. Arcia can stay at SS for his defense since the outfield hole has been properly addressed.
 
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