Given the Atlanta Braves mid market payroll stature and the quality of outfielders available this Hot Stove season, it was going to be challenge for the Braves to acquire a upper echelon free agent this winter.
Plenty of ideas have been speculated or wished for. Fools like myself have long dreamed of any possibility that Atlanta would look to spend on Jason Heyward, the former top prospect for the Bravos, who of course, kicked off the mass exodus of quality offensive talent John Hart and John Coppolella shipped out to pivot the Braves to be able to contend long term more quickly than playoff juggernauts on the rise like the Astros, the Cubs, and the National League champion New York Mets were able to pull of after similar situations in their organization.