Why the Braves had a Good Offseason

   With the success of the Royals and Astros, multiple teams have decided to utilize their methods to win (intentionally being bad, getting good prospects and an amazing chef team). One such team was the Atlanta Braves. The Braves will be terrible, but they have used the method perhaps the most successfully. Why else would ESPN give the Braves a #3 best offseason ranking for being terrible for the next five years. What the Braves did was accumulate every prospect in the universe (figuratively). One such trade involved sending Shelby Miller to the Diamondbacks in exchange for Ender Enciarte and Dansby Swanson. While the move was previously featured on worst deals of 2015, that was from Arizona's perspective. For Atlanta, receiving a cheap role-playing veteran and an overall 2015 first pick was amazing. While this will be the method in which most teams become championship caliber, baseball will have to do something about it, because having five or six teams want to lose is bad for business (also recently covered on a previous post).