NASHVILLE – The first day of baseball’s Winter Meetings saw Braves officials fielding numerous calls from teams interested in some of their many young starting pitchers and pitching prospects. Specifically, they were trying to wrest a impactful young hitter from teams interested in the Braves’ best pitchers, Shelby Miller and Julio Teheran.
Miller, who had historically poor run support during a nonetheless impressive first season with the Braves, in particular has created a buzz around baseball’s annual winter gathering/swap meet, as the price of free-agent pitchers has soared to absurd levels and some teams look to go the trade route instead for a top-shelf starter.