Robert Suárez

So how much would they be willing to commit to Tyler Malley to bring him back on a, say, three-year deal, which is probably what it would take to get him back? Raizel Iglesias is the third one.

We've talked about this at length on the show, right? Robert Suarez's contract...

actually has a salary bump for 27 into the $16 million range where Iglesias was sitting as the closer.

So, the contract points towards Atlanta transitioning to Suarez as the closer.

Strider's salary goes up.

Chris Sale.

Robert Suarez.

Michael Harris.

These were some of the big moves.

Robert Suarez was probably the best of them, and yet he was still injured about half the year.

Hopefully he'll be back ready to go this upcoming year.

But all that being said, yeah, the Braves do have some needs.

That's probably a right-handed hitter.

And then I've also brought up Cloacy, who is a young outfielder that I think makes a lot of sense as a defensive speed guy as your fifth outfielder.

The bullpen, I'm moving Holmes to the bullpen with Dylan Lee, Dylan Dodd, Ray Kerr, Medeiros, Lopez, Ronaldo Lopez to the bullpen as well, and then Suarez.

In this scenario, my bullpen, I think, is a tick weaker than it has been.

They could have signed Devin Williams.

They could have signed Robert Suarez.

Guys that were bona fide closers.

And when you have that guy at the top of your bullpen, it's much easier for everybody else to slot into a role.

And you have to give at least – The Cubs credit that when they go out there and they try and get the probably best premier bet on the market other than Kyle Schwarber, they deserve some credit.

And what you all you can really do with an offseason is, you know, you can always again, as you say, hindsight, you know, could they have gone out and spent money on like a Robert Suarez or something like that and spent 15 million dollars on a Devin Williams or someone in the bullpen? Yeah, they could have.

But those players also didn't perform incredibly well.

this year all you can do is kind of look at say like how many was he able to check as many boxes as he could heading into the year and i think we all like the fact that yeah he was going to try and build this team with 8 to 12 starters he needed every damn one of them um he brought in he tried to remake the bullpen on a fly with provided some different options we'll go through what worked and what didn't tyler austin at the time was the right-handed bat that everyone seemed to like especially fan graphs in turn of trying to spell Michael Bush at times at first base and then yeah Edward Cabrera was supposed to be that young controllable arm that was supposed to get us excited and we also had Kate Horton at the time so the his efforts we liked but obviously those efforts and those grades have nothing to do with what the results turned out to be

I don't think it's going to cost that much.

And I think as Kirshner laid out, he was given the Devin Williams contract as a comp for Bednar, like 51 mil, you know, Robert Suarez getting 45, three years, 45 from the Braves last year.

If you can get in between three years and 50 and three years of 45, you do it all day.

So find a way to re-sign David Bednar.