The Braves pivoted from losing out on Josh Donaldson to a 1 year/$18 M deal for OF Marcell Ozuna. This is a terrific low risk deal for the Braves, although it leaves their 3B situation unsettled with a battle between last year's bust, Austin Riley, and Johan Camargo. As it stand, the Braves OF will likely shake out to Ozuna in LF, Ender Inciarte in CF and Ronald Acuna Jr in RF. Nick Markakis likely stands to lose innings and PA's barring injuries.
What makes this tough to take is the Giants need a bopper RH bat in the OF and Ozuna seems like an almost perfect fit. Wasn't going to happen with the QO and Farhan hanging onto his draft picks for dear life(I am totally on board with not giving up first round draft picks, but when you have 5 out of the top 100, giving up a one of the non-first rounders seems like a small price to pay for signing a guy like Ozuna. Meanwhile......
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Remember Jake Jewell? Oh right! He's the RHP the Giants DFA'd Zack Cozart to sign from the Dodgers a couple of weeks ago. Well, now Jewell is DFA'd to make room for Angels pitching prospect Luis Maduro. Yeah him! Oh, you've never heard of him? Neither have I!
The Giants also handed out another spring training invite to C Rob Brantly. Brantly is....you guessed it, a LH batter. He just doesn't hit very well despite his ability to hit out of the LH batter's box.
Churn on!
I'm sure the QO hurt Ozuna's market, but he said he wanted to play in the NL east and his wife loves Atlanta. Too bad he would have been a nice fit with the Giants.
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