Braves arbitration/free agent stuff

Quick run down

Kimbrel wants $9 mill we offered $6.55 (31.5% diff)

Jhey wants $5.5 we offered $5.2 (5.61% diff)

Freddie wants $5.75 we offered $4.5 (24.39% diff)

I do not expect us to keep Kimbrel past next season. It really sucks, but he is a reliever who we have very little chance of resigning when the time comes.
It becomes even less likely that we will be able to keep him when you consider the everyday positional players that we will have to pay.

Freddie is phenomenal with his glove and his contact rate. He does leave much to be desired from a power stand point, but the dude is a ball player plain and simple.

Jhey: The fact that we are going to arbitration over 300k scares the shite out of me regarding his future with the club.


2016 Free agents: Jhey, Medlen, Justin Upton
2017 Free agents: Freeman, Kimbrel

Medlen was able to avoid arbitration this year, but IMO he is not in the long term plans for the team due to his diminished velocity and injury risk.

I honestly have no idea how we are going to be able to afford both Upton and Jhey moving forward.

Also note that Gonzales and Wren are both in the last years of their contracts.


One positive is that Uggla is finally off the books in 2015