Podcast Episode 18: Atlanta Braves Post-Draft Reactions
Podcast 18 discusses negotiations about baseball and the Atlanta Braves draft.
We are now well past the point in which we as fans are getting fed up that we will miss our Atlanta Braves on the field. We’ve now lost an entire Spring of Acuna and Albies, Soroka and Swanson, Freddie and Fried; and that’s time we won’t get back… ever.
Once we do see baseball on the field, it’s now more likely than ever that it will be under some form of duress and we’re liable to see a lot of players more grumpy than glad. It’s also bound to set up a round of talks in December of 2021 that’s filled with even more divisiveness and catty comments than we’re seeing now.
That’s not just a bad look. It’s bad for the sport. It will drive fans away and it will drive future athletes away, too. Yet no one involved seems to care about preserving the sport and its heritage… it’s now only about winning this particular moment in time.
Because of that… we’re all losing.
So we discuss all of that plus a better topic: the 2020 MLB Draft, which had its own quirks thanks to a tremendously compacted format this year.
That made for changes in how teams navigated things, and that was certainly true for the Atlanta Braves… Fred has discussed this separately, and he expands on that at length in this podcast.
Oh… the podcast: here it is!
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It will be a while before we can see these new draftees and what they can do — like the rest of the sport, they will be sequestered at home or into intrasquad instructional games at best this Summer. But at some point, they will indeed emerge from their cocoons in Atlanta Braves uniforms.
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This is a short one — a crisp thirty minutes — and we hope you get something out of the experience: thanks for listening!