After ending the 2023 season with the perfect document in baseball, the Braves disillusioned considerably in 2024 amid an avalanche of accidents to star gamers and underwhelming numbers from a lot of their offensive nucleus. This offseason, they’re going to must reshape their rotation as their longest-tenured starter hits free company whereas additionally overhauling their bench combine in hopes of re-capturing their maintain over their NL East from the division-champion Phillies and a surging Mets membership that made all of it the way in which to Sport 6 of the NLCS.
Assured Contracts
- Austin Riley, 3B: $176MM by means of 2032 (deal contains membership possibility for 2033)
- Matt Olson, 1B: $110MM by means of 2029 (deal contains membership possibility for 2030)
- Spencer Strider, RHP: $73MM by means of 2028 (contains $5MM buyout on 2029 membership possibility)
- Michael Harris II, CF: $64MM by means of 2030 (contains $5MM buyout on 2031 membership possibility; extra membership possibility for ’32)
- Sean Murphy, C: $60MM by means of 2028 (deal contains membership possibility for 2029)
- Ronald Acuna Jr. RF: $44MM by means of 2026 (contains $10MM buyout on 2027 membership possibility; extra membership possibility for ’28)
- Jorge Soler, RF: $32MM by means of 2026
- Reynaldo Lopez, RHP: $26MM by means of 2026 (contains $4MM buyout on 2027 membership possibility)
- Chris Sale, LHP: $22MM by means of 2025 (deal contains membership possibility for 2026)
- Joe Jimenez, RHP: $18MM by means of 2026
- Raisel Iglesias, RHP: $16MM by means of 2025
- Ozzie Albies, 2B: $11MM by means of 2025 (contains $4MM buyout on 2026 membership possibility; extra membership possibility for ’27)
- David Fletcher, INF/RHP: $8MM by means of 2025 (contains $1.5MM buyout on 2026 membership possibility)
- Pierce Johnson, RHP: $7.25MM by means of 2025 (contains $250K buyout on 2026 membership possibility)
- Orlando Arcia, SS: $3MM by means of 2025 (contains $1MM buyout on 2026 membership possibility)
Choice Choices
- Marcell Ozuna, DH: $16MM membership possibility with $1MM buyout
- Travis d’Arnaud, C: $8MM membership possibility with no buyout
- Aaron Bummer, LHP: $7.25MM membership possibility with $1.25MM buyout (deal additionally contains $7.5MM membership possibility for 2026 with no buyout)
- Luke Jackson, RHP: $7MM membership possibility with $2MM buyout
2025 monetary commitments: $188.75MM
Whole long-term monetary commitments: $674.5MM
Arbitration-Eligible Gamers (projected salaries through MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz)
Non-tender candidates: Laureano, Biggio, Ynoa, White
Free Brokers
Max Fried, Charlie Morton, A.J. Minter, Whit Merrifield, Gio Urshela, Adam Duvall, Jesse Chavez, John Brebbia
With quite a lot of high quality gamers nonetheless below long-term staff management, Atlanta stays firmly within the midst of its aggressive window regardless of a disappointing 89-win marketing campaign in 2024. The upcoming free company of Max Fried, who has anchored the membership’s rotation for the previous half decade, would maybe be extra regarding for the membership’s possibilities of rebounding in 2025 if GM Alex Anthopoulos’s entrance workplace hadn’t already efficiently navigated the departures of each MVP first baseman Freddie Freeman and All-Star shortstop Dansby Swanson lately.
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