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Sean Coleman. You can find me at Stats, SAC, on Twitter. When it comes to the Braves,

here's the latest from Atlanta. So we are at the beginning of the 2020,

2024 MOB off season in the midst of the first full week of the off-season.

And teams have made their decisions on team options for 2024.

They made decisions when it comes to their 40-man roster.

We're still before we get into award seasons and to award season,

and you're going to hear many Braves mentioned

many times over the next few weeks when it comes to awards. And we're at that point of the

off season where, yes, free agency has started, so activity can pick up at any time, but you're

basically just seeing teams kind of fill out their initial plans of the off season. We're starting

to see a few

rumors out there, some teams connected to certain players, what have you, but right now you still

haven't really seen activity truly pick up. The Braves actually have had a pretty busy offseason,

a pretty productive offseason themselves compared to most. You know, one box that was going to be clear that the Braves

were going to look to check for this offseason was going to be shoring up their bullpen,

going to be adding to what they've already got established as the back end of their bullpen,

and the Braves decided to do that by actually keeping their 2023 bullpen intact for a few

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