Technically, the Atlanta Braves let Tyler Flowers and Nick Markakis become free agents momentarily before re-signing them.
But that was just to move money around on the payroll, we all know that they really just exercised their $6 million team options for 2020.
While the Braves essentially saved $18.5 million by not picking up the 2020 options for Julio Teheran and Billy Hamilton.
Atlanta had to pay each of them a $1 million buyout, which goes against the Braves 2019 payroll. And if you include the $4 million they paid in buyouts to Flowers and Markakis, that adds $6 million to the 2019 payroll.