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The case for the Braves to keep Marco Gonzales

By now, most of us know about the big trade the Atlanta Braves made with the Seattle Mariners. Jarred Kelenic was obviously headliner coming back to the Braves, being a consensus top six prospect pre-2021 with tremendous upside.

Marco Gonzales and Evan White have generally been looked at as salary dump attachments to the deal in order to bring in Kelenic without giving up much prospect capital.

With White, there should be no argument that was certainly a salary dump. He has so far hit .165/.235/.308 in parts of two major league seasons after signing a 6 yrs/$24M contract that goes through the 2025 season.