It certainly has not been easy to watch other teams in the NL East spend tons of money, while the Atlanta Braves sit back and seemingly — and actually — do nothing.
According to Spotrac, the Atlanta Braves have the 20th lowest payroll in all of baseball entering the 2019 season. The Mets rank seventh, the Nationals eighth, and the Phillies 13th.
This was an offseason when fans expected the payroll for the Braves to increase significantly nwo that we are two years into the new stadium.
The Braves did go out and give Josh Donaldson $23 million for one year, but other than that there hasn’t been much spending this offseason.