Will the Braves re-sign Lane Thomas?

I’ve been working on the Lane Thomas player review that is going up later today, and it occurred to me…

There have been a lot of posts saying that the Braves may as well use their limited capital on re-signing their “good” additions/continuations from the last season: Mauricio Dubon, Tyler Mahle, and Raisel Iglesias. But, no one ever mentions Lane Thomas.

There are multiple reasons for that: Thomas got hurt and missed like half the time the Braves acquired him for, and, he was unplayable against righties while his inputs (but not his outputs) backslid against lefties in a teeny-tiny sample. Put these together, and Thomas isn’t going to get much of a deal for 2027. Which means, it won’t be…