It has been a busy and effective offseason for the Braves despite what transpired during…
It has been an active last six week for Alex Anthopoulos and staff as the Braves tweak their roster for the 2024 season.
Since the disappointing end of the 2023 postseason, Alex Anthopoulos and his staff have been working at a frenetic pace churning through the back-half of the team’s 40-man roster at levels that haven’t been seen since John Coppolella’s time in the Atlanta Braves front office.
Someone must have been drinking some of the highly caffeinated lemonade that’s been in the news recently, because despite what some dark corners of the internet seem to think, the Braves have been incredibly active. Anthopoulos discussed this topic earlier this week – you can catch a quick recap of that by clicking here.
Not including waiver claims and minor league signing, here’s a look at Atlanta’s activity for roughly the last six weeks:
Traded for Aaron Bummer by sending Michael Soroka, Jared Shuster, Nicky Lopez, Braden Shewmake and Riley Gowens to the Chicago White Sox.
Sold the rights to Nick Anderson to the Kansas City Royals.
Traded Kyle Wright to the Royals for Jackson Kowar.
Signed relief pitcher (and maybe starting pitcher) Reynaldo Lopez.
Re-signed Penn Murfee and Jackson Stephens.
Acquired Jarred Kelenic, Marco Gonzales and Evan White for Kowar and Cole Phillips
Traded Gonzales to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to be named later.
Re-signed Angel Perdomo.
Sent White and Tyler Thomas to the Los Angeles Angels for David Fletcher and Max Stassi.
Flipped Stassi to the White Sox for another player to be named later.
Picked up Ray Kerr and Matt Carpenter from the San Diego Padres for Drew Campbell.
Released Carpenter.
For some fans out there, they still equate name recognition with value. That’s not to say that some of the prospects – or past valuable MLB contributors – won’t go on to have successful MLB careers, but shipping out guys like Soroka and Wright showed that they were obviously no longer in the Braves plans (at least for 2024).
