The offseason is shaping up as a busy one for the Atlanta Braves as they work to improve the roster, retain key players, and get ready for another championship challenge in 2025.
Dates and details for your 2024/2025 MLB offseason calendar
Teams finalize their plans over the next six weeks, but nothing happens until the end of the World Series. While nothing obvious is going on, the Braves front office team is making sure they’re ready to meet these deadlines.
- Teams may make trades the day after the Series ends.
- Veteran players on expiring contracts immediately become free agents but can’t sign with or talk to other teams until the end of the quiet period. The quiet period is an exclusive five-day window when a player’s current team is the only one allowed to negotiate with its free agents.
- Any options (team, player, vesting, or mutual) must be picked up or declined in that five-day window.
- Teams who plan to make a qualifying off (QO) to a departing free agent must do so during the five-day quiet period.
The Atlanta Braves have an option on four players. I expect the club to:
- Pickup their $16M option for Marcell Ozuna, $8M option for Travis d’Arnaud, and $7.25M option on Aaron Bummer.
- Decline Luke Jackson’s $7M option and pay his $2M buyout.
Joel Sherman reported that this year’s qualifying offer currently projects at $21.2M.
Max Fried will receive the only Braves QO this year,