Off-Season Grades to Date: NL East

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Jul 27, 2013; View of the scoreboard after a game between the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals at Turner Field. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports

Lots of changes have occurred in our NL East division since players last laced-’em-up in October… okay, September for most of them. There are teams that are “going for it” and there are teams that … are hard to figure out.

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Given the direction that the Braves are heading, it is probably worth the effort to come up with two different sets of grades: the short- and long-term.

I will take a look at key additions and subtractions, plus a review of the off-season activities for each NL East team… with their grades, of course.

All payroll reports come from Cot’s Contracts – not the numbers I would use, but they are useful here in comparing trends from one year to the next.

Let’s dive in: please hit ‘NEXT’ above to begin…

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