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Braves Roster Moves: The Bear Necessity

Brave Moves covers recent Braves transactions. The last edition, which covered all of January, can be found here.

Feb 5: Signed OF Marcell Ozuna to a 4 year, $65,000,000 deal with a club option

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By a certain point, this started to feel inevitable. Braves fans watched in frustration as free agent outfielder after free agent outfielder signed elsewhere, and somehow the 2020 fan favorite remained available. Similar to Atlanta’s fan frustration, for the second straight year the market likely frustrated the Ozuna camp, with some reports he was looking for a deal in the $20-25M AAV range.