Busy Non-Tender Deadline Day For The Braves

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Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the Hammer Territory Podcast. My name is Sean Coleman. Hope, wherever you are and wherever you are listening, it is good to be with you once again. Obviously, we are very happy to be with you as always here on the Hammer Territory Podcast, part of the Foul Territory family of podcasts, And as always it is a pleasure to be with my podcast partner Steven Tolbert. Stephen, how are you doing tonight? A busy day for the Braze, A busy day across baseball. Excited to get to talk with it, talk with you about it once again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up, Sean? Yeah, we knew today was going to be a busy day. I mean it's on the calendar. It's a deadline day. Deadline spur action is always the same. And you know, it's funny that it was an eight pm Eastern deadline. I can never we got to standardize some of these deadline times. I swear to god, it's a different time every day and every year, and sometimes it's three pm and four pm and five pm and eight pm and nine. We got to standardize these deadlines. But yeah, we knew it was gonna be a busy day, and it was busy all over baseball. It was a busy day for the Braves, typical Braves fashion. They waited till an hour after the deadline to announce anything, probably the last team in the league to announce all of their stuff. Just tremendous work by Alex on that that's just so on brand and not a ton of surprises. We'll get into the specifics, but I don't think there was anything stunning that happened, you know, once it took so long to get out, people are, you know, wondering if they've got trades or something brewing. But at the end of the day, it was pretty standard stuff. We'll talk about all the specifics here in a second, but on the whole, I didn't think anything was terribly shocking. And now we kind of get to start the actual offseason where the money has been cleared, and now we get to start seeing how they're going to add back up this team for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I think that's what it came down to, right. It came down to what we've kind of seen in the theme of the offseason b so far for the Braves, which has included a couple of moves and once again was confirmed in multiple ways today, which we'll get into in a bit. But it's about clearing as much money as possible, and that's exactly what the Braves did with their deadline decisions today. What occurred today was the non tender deadline. Now I'm gonna let Stephen break that down a bit here in just a second, but the details for the Braves read as this. Seven players were decided upon today when it came to their twenty twenty five contracts. As of right now, the two who were decided upon that we're going to remain with the Braves, in other words, they were tendered contracts was Dylan Lee as well as Jared Killerni. Dylan Lee's probably gonna make around point five me and somewhere in there in twenty twenty five Jared Keilnick a little bit north of two million, but pretty sensible, you know, decisions by the Braves to tender both of those players' contracts. It was the players who were not tender contracts where I think much of our discussion is going to be on this edition of the Hammer Territory podcast. The Braves decided to non tender Ramon Loreano, Griffin Canning, Roy Bergsalonis, Ray Kerr, as well as Wastcar, you know. And I think that the two biggest names of all Stephen of that group is Griffin Canning as well as Ramon Loriano. And it's not just because of those two players of all that we mentioned, probably having the longest, you know, resume of success if you will, in Major League Baseball, but they were the ones who were going to be owed the most money. But I think what it comes down to is this, Yes, they were going to be owed a significant amount of money, but I think what it came down to is the Braves spelled that they probably could get that type of talent level at a cheaper cost, and that's why they decided to part ways with Loreano and Canning when it came to the money that they were likely going to be out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's break this down by each guy. So Griffin Caning obviously came over in the Jorge Hilaire trade and I tweeted at the time, A bunch of people tweeted at the time that don't be surprised if this guy gets non tendered at some point, because he's owed he's gonna be outed around five million dollars. He's a fifth starter, kind of fringe fifth starter type, but he has no minor league options. And when you're a fringe fifth starter with no minor league options, that's tough. It's tough to just it's tough to roster that guy at all. But then Scott and Brad brought up the point that, you know, the Braves could have just dumped so there for nothing. So they and they brought Caneing back, so maybe they like him, And that was a valid point, it was one hundred percent true. Well, we get to today and obviously they non tender him, and and that's still a fair question. By the way, you know, why even add the guy to the trade if you're just gonna non tender him a couple of weeks later. And I will say this about that Major League Baseball doesn't love salary dumps. They don't love teams just giving away players just to save money. They don't love teams just straight up buying players from other teams. And a lot of times they will include players that they have no interest in just to make the optics look better. I'm not saying that's what happened here, But I think the Braves wanted somebody that they could say we traded Jorge Hilaire for this guy, but also have the option of getting rid of that guy for no money guaranteed, and that just makes the optics look better if the whole trade doesn't look like the Braves just salary dumb Hoy Hilaire, but the brave salary dumb Toary Celari. That was the whole point. Now there were reasons for that, the roster, the DH We went over all that in the before the move happened. But yeah, the brave salary dumb Torey Hilario. They wanted to clear his money, They wanted to clear his spot in the roster so they could do other stuff. And today was the final confirmation of that when they non tendered Driffin King. So again for him, when you don't have any options as a fringe fist starter guy and you're making real money, it's tough to stay around. It just is, and you know that was ultimately his fate. And then Loriano. So Loreano, I think is probably the more interesting guy because Loreano was one of the best players on the team last year, one of the best offensive players on the team. You know, he kind of saved the Braves ass quite honestly in the second half when a bunch of their guys still weren't hitting. Obviously the injuries, he was awesome, and he was only going to be out about six million in arbitration, and a lot of people were thinking, you know, he's talented. You know, he's got some speed, he's got some athleticism, something this team doesn't have a lot of. You know, is it worth six million? And my point, and I tweeted this earlier today, was one, if he's going to be the weak side of a platoon, that means he's only going to get abut two hundred fifty play appearances and paying that guy six million bucks, that's real money. That's tough, Like that's ultimately going to be mainly a bench piece for you. And so that part of it, you know, it makes sense that they weren't interested in that. But more importantly than that is the only two realistic spots on this team that you can upgrade on offense or shortstop and left field. About that at nauseum at this point that those are the two spots. So those have been the two spots for like three years now. And if you don't feel like you can do a lot at shortstop because there's just not a lot of options out there, and we've talked about that as well, about shortstop is maybe the hardest spot to upgrade, then really you're only looking at left field as a spot where you can really go get better left field or right field depending on what happens with Acunya next year, but corner outfield essentially. And that being the case, do you want to commit six million dollars this early in the offseason to Loreano when you're probably gonna be aiming higher in terms of an upgrade somewhere else, And I don't you know, well, obviously have to see what they do with this money save. They saved about twelve million dollars today total. You know, if you go back and look with the whole Solarier trade they saved, you know, they saved thirteen million off the off his salary in twenty twenty five. They've cleared a bunch of money. You know. Obviously Max Freed's money came off, Charlie Morton's money came off. Now there's some guys getting raises. Chris Sale gets a raise, Michael Harris gets a raise, Spencer Strider gets a raise. But they have a bunch of money coming off. I mean, they've got money to spend now. And I get people's frustration because the Braves haven't actually added anything. They've actually subtracted quite a bit. They subtracted Solaira, they subtracted d'arnault, they subtracted Loreano. Honestly, those were three of the best hitters on the team last year and they haven't added anything. And so I get the idea that Braves fans are kind of annoyed. It looks like they're just salaried up in money. But this is all unto something. There is a other side of the coin that's coming here. They're not just clearing money to clear money. They're not just gonna sit on these savings. They're doing this so they can go do what they plan to do this offseason, and judging it now is judging a buck halfway through. So we're gonna wait and see what they do with the money before we make any judgments. But today's news, especially with Canning and Loreano, I mean, you know, it was probably a fifty to fifty proposition I could have made the UGA neither way, but it shouldn't have been surprising for anybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And one o the name that I did not mention that the Braves did tender a contract to was Eli White. And I think that's a pretty good way to segue into Okay, where do we stand as of now? So I think the best way to paint a picture of proof as to why the Braves are clearly likely looking to make a significant move for the outfield is this is because as of right now, when it comes to your starting outfield for the Atlanta Braves in twenty twenty five, it's going to be Michael Harrison center, flanked by Jared Kellnick in one outfield corner and Eli White in another outfield corner. And I think that another name, you know, they signed a Carlos Rodriguez today to a contract as well, a former minor leaguer with the Brewers who has a pretty intriguing approach to the plate. He may be your fourth outfielder. The point that I'm getting at is I'm not gonna waste time sitting here trying to build up those guys. The truth is that that is probably not an outfield that the Braves are looking to enter the twenty twenty five season then with the idea of contending. But that's what sticks out to me the most as far as Okay, what does the decisions today mean for the bigger picture. It means that Loreano is not in the equation as of right now. But you really only have one starter when it comes to the Braves entering the twenty twenty five season as of now, when it comes to their outfield, which to me paints a clear picture that not only could there be one move, there could be multiple moves that could come down the pipe this off season for the Braves outfield.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's what they've cleared is obvious room to upgrade in multiple outfield spots. And Kelnick has a minor league option left, so technically, you know, technically he doesn't have to start the year in Atlanta if he doesn't have a good spring training. Obviously he did not have a good year last year. That's been well documented at this point, you know, And if Cunya is not going to be ready till May, they could go get two outfielders. Absolutely, it will not surprise me at all. I do you still think there's smoke on the Williadamas stuff for shortstop, but that's gonna cost a lot of money, and you're gonna deal with a lot of other suitors who are very interested in him, and so outfield is just the easiest spot to upgrade. It's the most obvious need. There's a ton of options out there. You know, we've talked about this before, but corner outfield is a very easy spot to go get better, one of the easiest, versus shortstop, which is probably the hardest. And there's a bunch of trade names out there. There's a bunch of free agent names out there like and it would not surprise me at all to see them go get multiple guys at this point. You really would. Now. They paid a lot of money to get kell Nick last year. He still got a lot of years of team control. He's still cheap, he's still got talent. So it's not gonna stun me. If they say, you know what, Jared, we're gonna give you the first hundred plate appearances until Ronald gets back to give you one more chance to show us what you can do. That's probably a pretty good use of the assets. Since you spent all the money to get him, and he's still athletic, he's still got some speed, which again this team doesn't have a lot of. So it wouldn't done me to see if Michael Harrison center and Kellnigan wright to start the year and then whatever addition they make and left. But they're gonna make an addition. I'm almost certain they did this for a reason, and that's to go get better at one of these spots. And if they don't go get a shortstop, then I don't think there's any doubt they're gonna they're gonna get an outfielder no matter what. At this point, so it's just how good, how big, how big a name, how much money you know, where are they sit in the lineup, all of that stuff, And obviously we'll have those answers when we get the actual name. But yeah, I mean this very clearly opened up a world where they're gonna get a starter. They need another starter, and they're gonna get an outfielder because they need another outfielder, and they've cleared a bunch of money to do it. You know. It's kind of like they've set the table right, like they've cleared all the money they can clear. They cleared Travis, they cleared Solaria, they cleared these arb guys. You know, I don't see really any money I don't I don't really see anywhere else on the roster that they're gonna clear money. I've very I doubt, very seriously they would you know, trade away at Glaciers or anything like that one of the more spots. But yeah, I think this is all the money they're going to clear, and now it's back to and now it's time to add, to add back to the roster, start building the twenty twenty five roster. And that's kind of I think from this point to the end of the off season. I think that's where we're now at, where we've cut the money. Now it's time to add what we're going to add.

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Speaker 1: Back Beyond the outfield, I think the other aspect of the team that you know was I don't know if most impacted is the way to put it, but it was most in the focus when it comes to today's decisions. Was the bullpen, right, you know, because last year the Braves made a you know, last year's deadline day was actually very busy. Last year's deadline day, you know, that was the day we signed or we traded Mike Soroka and in the deal that brought us Aaron Bummer, we also traded Kyle Wrightman another move as well, but today, you know, we we in that off season as well, we also acquired Ray Kerr, and last offseason the Braves made it a point to get some good left handed depth for rotation as well as the bullpen. Of course, ray Kerr, unfortunately, it seemed like the Brave certainly did you know, think highly of him. He unfortunately, you know, went you know, under Tommy John surgery and had that you know, towards the middle of last year. But he was non tender today. I imagine that he'll probably be brought back on a minor league deal. But even more importantly is the players that are going to impact the Braves in twenty twenty five. Dylan Lee again, pretty cheap contract, no brainer. I wouldn't even be surprised if we would possibly extend him this offseason at some point. But you've got him and Bummer as being your two options out of the bullpen. We'll see what happens when it comes to mentor or they're adding another left hander. Griffin Kenny was someone that I think some speculator could have a role in the bullpen if the Braves wanted to try that. But like we're talking about the outfield and the decisions today that were made showing that the Braves likely are going to make a move, and a significant one for the outfield. I think all today also showed that there are some openings in that bullpen and it's likely going to be something that Alex and Thoppa this looks to target to add, you know, at least a relevant arm to the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean as soon as they lost Joe Menez, they were gonna they're in the market for a high leverle not just a reliever, but a high leverager that they need somebody that can pitch the eighth inning right now. Dylan Lee's very good. Aaron Bumer's very good. I mean, you know, famously on this podcast we've you know, sung the praises of Aaron Bummer, and he's very good. I like him a lot, But I don't know that Snit agrees with that. So and they need more right handed power arms in the in the bullpen after losing a minute, So yeah, the Braves are going to be in that market. I mean, they're just going to be I don't know if they're going to be in Camillo de ball I think the Giants are probably gonna trade him. Ryan Helsley, he's got one year left with Seattle Saint Louis. You know, there were some guys today that were DFA Finnegan, you know Romano. You know, there's some interesting names. Bullpen is another spot where it's easy. There's a lot of names. There's a lot of chances to go get guys. There's guys that are on other teams that maybe you like more, kind of like a Pierce Johnson where you see something maybe not having the best year, but you you feel like they're better than that. You can go get some value. You know, the Twins have talked about moving some of their high leverage guys to say some money. There's guys out there. The Braves are going to be in that market, and the Braves are gonna get an outfielder. They're gonna get a starter, and they're gonna get a reliever before the winder's over. I'm ninety certain. I would love to say they're gonna get a shortstop, but I don't know that. But the outfield, the starter, and the reliever I'm fairly certain of so. And the reliever is going to be of note, it's going to be somebody you've heard of, somebody who's pitched high leverage, somebody very good. So, you know, the Braves have cleared their money, they know what they have to work with now, and the targets, you know, the spots on the team that they need to improve are pretty clear as well. And now we're just now we're in the addition part of the off season where we're just gonna see who they target. Some of these guys that were cut today, they could be. I mean, if they want to go Cayl Finigan, I'll take that. In Harby, he's a very good picture. Those ninety nine well, I don't want to say very good, very good. It's probably strong. He's a good picture. He can help you in the bullpen. He's a hard thrower. But we'll see, Yeah, we'll see what they do. But they're absolutely going to add to the bullpen. They're absolutely going to add to the outfiel and they're absolutely going to add to the rotation. So now we've we've moved to that part of the off season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the one other thing that stands out again going back to the Jorge Celaire trade in them non tendering Griffin Cannon today is you're seeing polar opposites from last offseason, right. You know, last offseason they were willing to take on money mainly to get Jared Kilnick and then many of the moves that they made subsequently from that, we're moving those pieces around, you know, either try to find more useful pieces or free up money or what have you. But now they trade Jorge Celaire, they've declined the option on Griffin Canning. Again, we're coming to this team wanting to save money, and so we talk about these trades. We talk about, you know, the idea of them potentially going after to get Williadomas. But the other thing that I think that the Braves are kind of eyeing with, you know, clearing out so much of this money is I know that Alex Enthopless likes to operate early in the off season, typically when it comes to November moves, but it also could be one of those things to where the Braves are trying to clear as much money as possible, where maybe they're going to be a bit more patient when it comes to the free agent market and potentially see if there are any guys who become undervalue because they stay on the market, you know, for longer than people anticipate. I think that's the biggest thing to take away of all from today is the Braves just want to have as much money freed up as possible so that they can go in multiple different directions, since they probably are entering the off season with more needs to build than they thought they did when the season ended a few months ago, or excuse me, a month or so ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll say this, Braves fans still have a little PTSD from the way Liberty Media operated for a bunch of years where they were pretty cheap, they didn't spend and so when Braves fans here save money, you know, clearing money, saving money, they get a little scared. But the last three or four years, the Braves have been one of the highest payroll teams in baseball. Like, this is not the Braves of like twenty fourteen, where they run one hundred and twenty million dollars payroll and they can't spend a dime. More like, the Braves are a top five, top seven payroll team and have been for the last couple of years, and Alex said, payrolls going up and this, they're not clearing this money just to save it, just so they can put it in the owner's pocket. Like I know fans think that and they get scared. They're like, oh, they're just gonna you know, dumpster dive and save all the money. You know, I'm not you know, we don't work for the team. We don't work for Liberty Media. If we thought that, we would say that. The last few years have shown this team is willing to spend money, aggressively, spend money, have one of the highest payrolls in baseball. Like they they spend and you know, that was a reputation that earned about a decade ago. It's not a reputation they have now in the last three or four years. They spend money and and I have full confidence that they're going to go out and spend this money. And you know, Alex is trying to win World Series that you know, the Braves are in the middle of a championship contention window. They're not dialing back, They're not you know, retooling reshot. They're they're they are taking money from one part of the team and trying to move it to another part. And the first step of that is to clear the money from the old part of the team. And now we move to the part where they're moving the money to the new part of the team. And that's where we're at now. So I know fans are listening to this going they're just being cheap, they're just trying to save the money. You're you're you're working with a twenty like thirteen understanding of Braves ownership and Braves spending the new this new era. Like the Braves are one of the highest payroll teams in baseball. They they live they don't live in like the Dodgers, Mets, but they're that next team, next tier down of you know, they were, They've been a luxury tax team the last couple of years. Like they spend, they spend money, and I have no doubt they're going to spend money again this offseason. And now that they've freed it up to do so, Alice can go make the moves he once and that's what we're gonna have to wait and see now.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know, we talked so much about the moves that the Braves will potentially make, but Another thing that stood out to me this week in general Stephen chris Sil winning his first I Young Award on Wednesday. It was revealed on Thursday that Marcello Zuna actually finished fourth in the NL MVP Bony chris Sel finished seventh. I think that was very good finishes for both of them, very well deserved. We talk so much about the moves that are going to be made, but what this week also reminded me of is this is that over the past three years, the Braves have had Marcello Zuna, Chris Sell, Ronald Acunya Junior win it, but also Matt Olsen as well as Austin Ryan finish in the top ten of MVP voting. And the thing that I'm getting at is is that we are returning all those guys and we're going to have them for multiple years of control. I know that I'm just stating the obvious here. Everybody knows this when you think about it, but I think that when you take a step back and just realize, okay, that's a pretty good starting point. It was just a reminder that even in the year where things did not go the way that we had hoped that it would, there still a lot of talent on this team, and if we can get them all competing and going at the level that we, you know, can expect for them to play at, we're still pretty good. But first off, congratulations to Chris Sale But I think overall, the recognition that he got, as well as Marcelo Azuna got it was certainly deserved. A reminder of just how special both of them were this season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we knew it was. You know, everybody knew Chrisselle is going to win the sign. We talked about it when he won the Comeback Player of the Year. He was the best pitcher in baseball, frankly, and Marcelo Zuna, of course, carried this team all year, you know. For a fourth place finishing MVP, certainly deserving. But you're right, I mean, this team is just it's so unbelievably loaded. I mean, you know, they've had four five guys finishing MVP voting. You know, it wouldn't stun anybody of Spencer Stryder one day finish an MVP voting. It wouldn't done. Anybody of Michael Harris finished an MVP voting. It wasn't done anybody of Sean Murphy or Ozzy Albi's went crazy one year, like they have so much freaking talent. It's crazy how much talent this team has. Last year it went and on the position player side, it just went. It all went to hell very quickly, and the pitching staff kind of had to hold the team together for the season. And they still made the playoffs. And you know, there's a lot of teams out there that would love just one playoff run, and the Braves have made the playoffs for seven years in a row or something like that, so a ton of talent. You know, it's gonna come back. You know, we'll see what happens with a Kunyan Strider in terms of what they give the Braves next year. But you know, Riley'll be back, Murphy should be back. You know, obviously Olson in Azuna, Michael Harris looks like he's ready for kind of his burst onto the scene as one of the best players in baseball. Tons of talent, tons of talent. And on top of that, the Braves are gonna add. The Braves are gonna add this offseason. I'm one hundred percent certain they're gonna add. We don't know the names yet, but they're gonna add They're gonna be aggressive in a couple spots, and you know, when the season starts, this will be one of the favorites to win the World Series again like they have been for the last few years. And you know, don't take that for granted, because that's not It's not that way everywhere, Like go look at go look at what the Colorado Rocky fans deal with every year, or you know, go look at what the Miami Marlins fans deal with or Oakland. You know, this is not normal everywhere, and so you know, it is good to zoom out every once in a while and maintain perspective of how unbelievable this run has been for Grace fans. But yeah, twenty twenty five team is going to be very good. And now we're just waiting to see when these injured guys come back, would they give us. And we're waiting to see what Alex does to the roster to improve on the few spots where they do need to improve. And I'm I know he almost certainly will. I would be stunned if he doesn't add a starter, a reliever, and an outfielder at some point in the next you know, two months, and when you.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the perspective of okay, you look at the fact that we were up three to one on the Dodgers in the twenty twenty playoffs, unfortunately lost in the NLCS. We won the twenty twenty one World Series, and yet we're three years and three disappointing playoff appearances removed from that, and yet we're still going into the fourth year removed from that World Series title. It's clearly a top five favorite to win the World Series as of right now before any moves are made. And so again that just speaks to I think just how deep and talented this team is. But I think another thing that you know is worth discussing it is the level of names that were not tendreed contracts today. I know that we already mentioned several of them, but I think that that also was kind of a you know factor in the Braves not wanting to pay Loreano the six million pay. Canning defied me, and it was that the fact is there are going to be options out there that make some sense, and Stephen, you mentioned a few of them. Jordan Romano really stands out to me as someone that could make sense because he was a draft pick of Alexanthopolis back in twenty fourteen. But when it comes to those names that are out there, are there one or two names that just, you know, really stand out. I know you mentioned Kyle Finnegan, but do any of the outfillers make sense to you that that could be an option for the Braves. Maybe too early to tell, but those of the players who are non tendered today, I do think there are one or two who could be a real value for Atlanta if they feel they can bring them in and capitalize on maybe some previous success they had had in the MLB. In MLB, yeah, I'll beach see what they do.

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Speaker 2: There's a couple of guys, you know. Dylan Carlson got DFA today for the Rays. You know, he's left handed, he's a center fielder, he's got talent. He had a really bad year in twenty four so, you know, we'll see what happens. That's a guy that has some interesting Brian day La Cruz has always been a guy that you know, has a profile that the Braves have looked for in the past. It's the ball really hard, you know, his expected numbers has always been really high, so that could be a guy. Yeah, it was more about relievers today. Honestly, like you said, Romano and Finnegan are guys that I think the Brids would be interested in. But yeah, there's a there's a few guys that got cut today, you know, John Birdie. Uh it was with the Yankees and the Marlins. Really good bench piece, kind of a utility guy, plays everywhere in a good season last year. I wouldn't be stunned if if the Braves out any of those guys as depth pieces. I don't I don't think they're. I do think they'll aim higher than that to start with. You know, I think they've got some some actual real names that they're targeting at all these positions. But on the margins now, wouldn't surprise me at all if if they went with some of those names, and you know, probably some more that we hadn't mentioned that you know, they've probably they probably like a little bit. But yeah, I think they're I think they're gonna aim higher to start with.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, So what comes next is the question? And I think that that really is what stands out. You know, we're going into the weekend before Thanksgiving, you know, typically you know, it could be pretty active going into you know, Thanksgiving week, you don't necessarily see it, you know, when Thanksgiving happens and the weekend immediately after, but especially as we get into that first week of December, I think that's really where action will pick up. So yes, still a few more days before we may start to see you know, some really you know heavy you know news duves and moves being made. But we've already seen some pretty notable trades this week. I think it'll be interesting to see what eventually happens, and maybe the Bruise will make the Braves will make a move before Thanksgiving. Steven, do you have anything else for us before we wrap ups of the Hammer Territory podcast.

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Speaker 2: Nope, that's about it. We just wanted to make sure we got on to talk about these moves, what they mean, the money that was saved, what they're probably gonna do with that money. And now now we're kind of in a wedding game to see exactly how they start adding back to the twenty twenty five team.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and so we call it, you know, just waiting on that blue square. You know, we got it today when it came to the announcement of two additional hitting coaches to the braves, but hopefully we'll get a couple of those Blue Square announcements before Thanksgiving. A rise for Steven Tolbart. My name is Sean Coleman. You can find us obviously below here on at slash Twitter. You can find The Hammer Territory across all forms of social media as well as Foul Territory. We are proud to be part of the family of podcasts under Foul Territory. Wherever you subscribe, that's where we'll be for free and also on YouTube. Make sure you check out all the great content we have to provide for Stephen Tolbart. My name is Sean co Higin Soon Go Braves here on The Hammer Territory podcast