After Brian McCann’s retirement, the Braves have a void to fill at the catcher position. The Braves have used a platoon of two veteran catchers for the past several years, and it’s a formula that has worked well. Braves’ catchers as a group have ranked in the top-eight in baseball in fWAR each of the past three seasons without being in the top-eight in spending on the position. I expect this trend to continue.
Picking up Tyler Flowers’ option should be a fairly easy decision. Simply put, the Braves won’t be able to get better value for $4 million ($6 million option minus the $2 million buyout) than Flowers, who ranked 11th in fWAR (2.