{"id":551504,"date":"2026-02-03T03:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551504\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:04:19","slug":"offseason-open-thread-february-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551504\/","title":{"rendered":"Offseason open thread: February 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story by<a data-ylk=\"elm:logo;itc:0;sec:logo-provider;slk:SB Nation;\" class=\"with-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"SB Nation\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"138\" height=\"28\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"content-lightlogo\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9b02bb90-059c-11f0-bfff-8a21e79a5ff9.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"SB Nation\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"hidden content-darklogo\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b1faad80-04b6-11f0-a7ff-3ec9ff1e1e1d.jpeg\"\/><\/a><img alt=\"Shortstop Walt Weiss (TOP) of the Atlanta Braves completes a double play over Tino Martinez of the New York Yankees 23 October 1999 during game one of the 1999 World Series at Turner Field in Atlanta, GA. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO\/DON EMMERT (Photo by Don EMMERT \/ AFP) (Photo by DON EMMERT\/AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"cropped-img\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/46a37c4b02f965a3e9fb884569ac49bd.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shortstop Walt Weiss (TOP) of the Atlanta Braves completes a double play over Tino Martinez of the New York Yankees 23 October 1999 during game one of the 1999 World Series at Turner Field in Atlanta, GA. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO\/DON EMMERT (Photo by Don EMMERT \/ AFP) (Photo by DON EMMERT\/AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Busy day, huh? The week\u2019s off to an exciting start so far, what with the news about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/125642\/braves-tv-provider-is-undetermined-as-six-teams-move-to-mlb-media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the future;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the future<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/125672\/braves-expected-to-launch-their-own-tv-network-per-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Braves on TV\/streaming;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Braves on TV\/streaming<\/a>, the Braves having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/125617\/spring-training-truck-day-giveaways-bobbleheads-ronald-acuna-jr-michael-harris-ii-drake-baldwin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:their annual Truck Day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">their annual Truck Day<\/a> and our minor league crew getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-prospects-minor-leagues\/125548\/2026-preseason-top-30-prospects-honorable-mentions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:their preseason prospect rankings underway.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">their preseason prospect rankings underway.<\/a> Which one was the most exciting part for you so far? The floor is now yours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s a random clip:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story by Shortstop Walt Weiss (TOP) of the Atlanta Braves completes a double play over Tino Martinez of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[72660,191,46,4166,5,192,72659,4,62,24559,35610],"class_list":{"0":"post-551504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-1999-world-series","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-electronic-image","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-new-york-yankees","17":"tag-tino-martinez","18":"tag-walt-weiss"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116004485139141083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}