Normally, when a bench player whose production on the field has been iffy, there normally isn’t that much in terms of fan reaction and it is just a part of the normal business of baseball.
That was not the case when the Braves non-tendered Charlie Culberson.
In some corners of the internet, you would have thought that the Braves had released Freddie Freeman when it was announced that the team had not tendered him a contract for the 2020 season. There are a lot of reasons for that fan reaction (real baseball reasons given Culberson’s utility, his local ties, memories of some clutch moments he has had as a Braves, etc.