The Atlanta Braves signed Jordan Luplow to a 1 year, $1.4MM deal on December 19th, which appeared to be a surprise to many. Alex Anthopoulos has a decent track record of acquiring players that seem unexpected at the time, that end up being valuable assets to the team.
Luplow did not exactly have the best showing in 2022, which is why this signing may have seemed to be so shocking to some. His overall slash line was .176/.274/.361, which equated to a 78 wRC+ (22.0 percent below league average).
He did end up with a 0.