The Latest Breaking News from Freddie Freeman

PHOENIX — Usually, Major League Baseball's offseason hot stove plays out behind the scenes, with executives operating in the shadows and news leaking out slowly on social media.

We have our answer. The Braves just traded half their farm system – slight exaggeration, but only slight – for Matt Olson. He’s a first baseman. You don’t make such a move if you believe you’ll re-sign Freddie Freeman. You make this deal only if you know he’s headed elsewhere.

End of an era for the Braves.

Today is a great day. I’m listening to “Take It Easy” as I begin this newsletter, temperatures in Brooklyn are in the 50s, and all of us get to look forward to some baseball. This paragraph is the last in which I’ll mention the lockout in this introduction section. You…

LOS ANGELES — When we last left the Dodgers, they were injured, exhausted and soundly knocked off their title pedestal by the eventual champion Atlanta Braves.

The disclosure last week of the Braves’ record-setting financial results left many fans asking: What does it all mean for the team’s player payroll and for a potential Freddie Freeman contract?

NEW YORK — Could Freddie Freeman be donning a Mets uniform at the end of this lockout?

ATLANTA — It’s easy to say, “Give Freddie Freeman what he wants.” He has been the Braves’ second-best position player of the 21st century. (The best became a first-ballot Hall of Famer.) Freeman just helped deliver a giddy-beyond-belief World Series triumph. Nobody has an unkind word to say about the…

The five-time All-Star and 2020 NL MVP is reportedly looking elsewhere after spending the first 12 years of his career in Atlanta.