Good morning and welcome to episode 143 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Baseball

Prospectus. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh. Back again is Sam Miller in Long Beach

and might be joining us to talk about the Atlanta Braves is real live podcast listener Zach

Levine. Hello Zach. How are you? Very well. So the Braves, what was your favorite

up to an acquisition of this offseason? My favorite was Justin but BJ can take

themselves and being a close second, which was weird for me because I'm the older brother

and I usually prefer older brother kind of things. But I was a bigger fan of the

Justin up to an acquisition. I thought you know obviously it's been talked about a lot on the

show about the deal from the Arizona standpoint but I just I thought he'll he'll fit in real nicely

and at at pretty decent cost control which is if you look at the the last several years of

Braves history has really been what it's about for a successful team like this they operate under

from what I understand a pretty tight restrictions budget wise and just to have him locked in

with that sort of stability making less than his brother and I certainly expect him to be the more

valuable player year by year. I know he's only under under team control three more versus now

now five for BJ opt-in but I just I think I like what Justin's going to be able to do a little bit

more considering the the costs that each of them ended up signing for were you surprised at all

that the Braves showed so much interest in BJ opt-in and really not that much interest in bringing

back Michael Bourne. Yeah a little bit I guess I don't I'm not sure if they thought Bourne was just

going to be out of their range it's sort of funny how how we see that four or in 48 now as just

what been you know reading on the internet yeah that's what he was worth but in the beginning

of this it was your pitcher was granky and your hitter was born and and that was the the top of

the market and I I'm not sure just because of the age I would rather have born than than upton but

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