AJ Hinch On Tigers’ Offseason Plans

Jesus that took alot of scrolling to get down here to be able to comment!! lol

Anyways, Tommy La Stella is actually who I want the Braves to sign, if they cannot resign Ozuna, and/or if there is no universal DH..

By signing La Stella, and by using Contreras as their backup Catcher, it would afford the Braves and AA the luxury of saving some money, so they would still be able to go out and resign Greene, pickup another high leverage reliever/closer to replace Melancon, resign Duvall at a cheaper rate as a power bench bat/spot starter, and then they could also sign Joc Pederson…

Acuña Jr.
Albies/La Stella
Freeman
Pederson/Duvall
d’Arnaud
La Stella/Albies
Swanson
(DH Riley)
Pache/Riley

I think that would be the perfect moves to put the Braves right back in contention for the division..They’d probably still end up losing to the Dodgers, but crazier things have happened!! They really only had 1 reliable starter and an upstart rookie last season, and they managed to get only 1 win away from advancing to the World Series..

Top that off with a new revamped rotation of three young super studs in Soroka, Fried, and Anderson, and then add in the veterans Morton and Smyly, and the Braves could matchup with almost anyone on any given night..

Even if Smyly doesn’t work out, the Braves still have Kyle Wright, Bryse Wilson, Newcomb, Ynoa, Davidson, Muller, or Touki they could all use to help fill in or piggyback off eachother. Heck. Wilson and Wright both looked pretty dang good at times last season, and looked the part of a couple bonafide #4&#5s moving forward..They just need to build off their success, and remain consistent going into 2021..

Or every 5th day, you could even have Smyly go the first 3 innings, bring in Newcomb/Wright/Wilson for the 4th and 5th innings, and then go with some combo of J.Webb/AJ Minter/T.Matzek/W.Smith/S.Greene to get through the 6th, 7th, and 8th, and then let Chris Martin close it out in the 9th…

Either way, the point is to get the message put to AA and Tommy La Stella for him to join Morton and please COME BACK HOME!!!