Atlanta Braves Mailbag: Arbitration and IFA edition

Hello again everyone and welcome to our Atlanta Braves Q&A here at Tomahawk Take, a regular feature where you ask your Braves (or whatever) questions in the comments and I do my best to answer them.

There are some important dates coming up that will impact the Braves significantly. Tomorrow (1/13) is the deadline for teams and players to file arbitration figures. We should get a good sense of how much AJ Minter and Max Fried will be making in 2023 although we may have to wait for actual hearings to get the final numbers, especially on Fried.

Also, the international free agent market opens up on Sunday (1/15) and while we do have an IFA preview going up tomorrow morning, I am happy to answer questions about that as well.

It is Atlanta Braves Q&A time!

For quite a while now, one fixture of my Twitter account has been that I periodically do Q&A sessions where followers send me questions and I do my best to answer as many of them as possible. Those Q&As have been quite popular and when thinking about how to best build a community here at Tomahawk Take, one of my first ideas was to do weekly sessions where I invite readers to ask me questions and I answer them right in the comments. For now, my plan is to do them every Thursday at 6 PM EST, but I will let you know if that plan changes.

The way this works is simple: all you do is log in and post your questions in the comments and I will reply with my answers. I can type pretty fast, but if there is a lot of questions…just be patient with me and I will get to yours. You can ask me Braves related questions (majors or minors), questions about the site, or really anything as long as it isn’t super creepy/too personal (if you don’t know where that line is, its probably best to play it safe).

I will be answering a lot of questions as they come in to start, but at some point, I am going to need to do things like “eat”, “say hi to my wife”, and “sleep”, so there may be some pauses/delays. Once we get past the initial barrage of questions, I do plan on circling back to this post over the next day or so to answer questions that trickle in. After that, you are probably best served to drop by the Q&A next week.

So hit me, ask me anything!