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Welcome to the Daily Hammer, your daily news source on the 2021 World Series champion Atlanta Braves from the Talking Chop Podcast Network. My name is Sean Coleman. Hope each of you, wherever you are listening, or having a marvelous start to

your Monday. You, of course, can find the Daily Hammer, the Talking Chop podcast, and the Road to

Atlanta podcasts, all at Talking Chop.com, as well as at Talking Chop across all forms of social media.

My name's Sean Coleman, you can find me at Stats, SAC. When it comes to the Braves, here's the latest from Atlanta.

And actually, there's not really much to report in terms of the Braves,

and that seems a bit odd with how crazy of a day it was for action across Major League Baseball on Sunday.

If we go back 10 days, basically to, you know, we'll go back to the start of Thanksgiving

week, it was widely anticipated across baseball that once the calendar hit the end of November

and December 1st arrived, the current collective bargaining agreement expired and a potential

lockout was likely to start that there was going to be plenty of action around Major

League Baseball with teams making plenty of transactions to get as much certainty about their

rosters as possible. And we saw some action pick up over the weekend after Thanksgiving.

But I think hardly anyone, if anyone at all, really could have predicted the level of activity that we saw on Sunday,

especially with some of the names that were involved.

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