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Sauce<\/a>: Dodgers release Jason Heyward, he is free to sign anywhere that will take him<\/span><\/p>\n Anyone who\u2019s been paying attention to the Braves this year has probably noticed that the team is operating on its usual Barves-ey cheapskate bullshit, picking up inexpensive castaways, cuts and releases from all the other teams in the league and trying to pawn them off like they\u2019re the answers to the team\u2019s woes and shortcomings.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the Braves have been pretty flagrant this year by picking up, almost exclusively, former players, with the hopes that the fans are as dumb as they hope they are (but surprisingly, aren\u2019t) and put happy memories and false optimism on the obvious facts that these guys were all available because they\u2019re not playing as well as they once did in a previous time, like 2021.\u00a0 Eddie Rosario, Jorge Soler and Luke Jackson are some of the guys re-acquired by the team, with Rosario not only having been cut by the Braves, but he\u2019s also, at the time of me writing this, just freshly cut from the Mets, after already being cut by the Nationals earlier in the year.<\/span><\/p>\n Soler hasn\u2019t been terrible, but he also hasn\u2019t been the World Series monster MVP he was in 2021, and Luke Jackson has been what he\u2019s always been \u2013 a mediocre reliever, that no longer has Will Smith and a healthy Tyler Matzek and a pre-sucking AJ Minter to hide behind in the bullpen and is getting exposed as of late.\u00a0 In other words, the Braves picked up mediocre product before the deadline and shouldn\u2019t be surprised by getting mediocre return in investment.<\/span><\/p>\n But with the news of Jason Heyward\u2019s release by the Dodgers, I feel like there\u2019s no way in hell that I\u2019m the only Braves fan whose blood went cold upon hearing it, because I think we all collectively knew the second we saw it, what some extreme cheapskate bean counters at The Battery were thinking when they saw it \u2013 pick \u2018em up<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n Believe me, Jason Heyward\u2019s regular season debut on the Opening Day of 2010 is still one of the most magical sports memory I\u2019ll ever have.\u00a0 The super-typed 20-year old rookie phenom blasting a three-run home run in his very first at-bat against the Chicago Cubs is still stuff of legend, and having a monster rookie season, en route to being one of the core players of the organization for the next few years, all fantastic memories.<\/span><\/p>\n Heyward himself was always a stand-up player, a great role model for kids, and a guy that any organization would be happy to have.\u00a0 I have no ill-will towards the man whatsoever, and I like him personally, but when it comes to his place currently as an active baseball player, I would rather the Braves not Barves, and pick him up, and try to convince fans that they can fix him back to being an All-Star, and insist on trotting him out on the regular, when the team is still somehow, miraculously in the thick of things when it comes to playoff position.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason why the Dodgers released him, in favor of Chris Taylor of all people, and any contender like the Braves should probably think twice before considering picking him up, unless they want absolutely nothing but a 9th<\/sup> inning defensive replacement for a corner outfielder.<\/span><\/p>\n But I have this sinking feeling that the Braves aren\u2019t going to listen to any logical arguments against Jason Heyward\u2019s return to the team, and are going to be looking at dollar signs, exposure, newspaper articles and editorials about the prodigal son\u2019s return home to Atlanta, and pick him up anyway soon.\u00a0 The loss of Ronald Acu\u00f1a, and the tumultuous health of Michael Harris II, outfield depth is stretched thin as it is, but Heyward\u2019s .208 batting average this year really isn\u2019t going to help out.<\/span><\/p>\n And these are the things that separate the Braves from being among the league\u2019s elite, in spite of their general, miraculous on-field winning record.\u00a0 I guess I should be fortunate that the organization continues to field a playoff-caliber team, but at the same time, I kind of wish they\u2019d blow it all up, in order to build a World Series championship-caliber team, but I digress.<\/span><\/p>\n As much as I like and admire Jason Heyward the person, as a baseball player, his best years are long beyond him, and the further he stays away from the Braves, the better off the team will ultimately be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sauce: Dodgers release Jason Heyward, he is free to sign anywhere that will take him Anyone who\u2019s been paying attention to the Braves this year has probably noticed that the team is operating on its usual Barves-ey cheapskate bullshit, picking up inexpensive castaways, cuts and releases from all the other teams in the league and … Continue reading Every Braves 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