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Starting Nine: Deal? Hearing? Case for Braves to lock up Fried, Riley, Swanson

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Atlanta can avoid its file-and-trial ways with multi-year deals for pieces of young core

Austin Riley (left) and Dansby Swanson are among five Braves on track to go to arbitration hearings with the team. The franchise has never gone to trial with more than four in a single year.

Trials or multi-year deals? Forecasting the potential of Braves reaching multi-year deal with five arbitration-eligible players and handicapping the in-house rotation spots as Opening Day draws closer.

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