3 easy and realistic trade options for Atlanta Braves with Josh Donaldson gone

Kyle Seager (2.5 WAR) and Mitch Haniger (3 WAR)

The Braves could go to Seattle and kill two birds with one stone by trading for third baseman Kyle Seager and Mitch Haniger.

I get the concerns with Seager who is not the 5 WAR player that he once was, but he still put up decent numbers in 2019 and was a 2.9 WAR player.

The batting average has really taken a hit the past couple of years from the .260 range down to the .230 range. But he still has a ton of power with at least 20 home runs in each of the last eight seasons.

And Seager still rates as an above-average defender at third base.

I don’t love his contract as he’s set to make $19.5 million in 2020 and $18.5 million in 2021 with a buyout for 2022 that could be as much as $3 million.

The Mariners may have to throw in some money for that to work.

Or, you could take that on as part of trading for Mitch Haniger.

I’m not as high on Haniger as I was to begin the offseason. As Fred Owen pointed out in our latest podcast episode, he’s really only had one good season in the big leagues.

But certainly, he would be an upgrade for what we have slated in left field right now and he’s not that expensive in his first year of arbitration making $3.010 million and he’s under team control through 2022.