Longtime Atlanta Braves beat writer Dave O’Brien joined Dukes & Bell Tuesday and talked about what the team might do at third base.
O’Brien told the guys the Braves have to bring third baseman Josh Donaldson back.
O’Brien said the Braves might have to overpay to fill third base.
“If they decide that none of the third baseman available are in their price range or they’re willing to trade prospects, they could always add an outfield bat,” O’Brien said. “It’s not nearly as good an option, I think, because then you’re going to roll the dice at third base and hope [Johan] Camargo reverts to his 2018 form rather than last year when he was just bad defensively and bad offensively for most of the year. And Austin Riley, if you knew he was going to hit like he did or even close, somewhat closer to what he did in the first six weeks, then you’d do that.
"But you just don’t know. I just think third base is so much easier to do you’re just going to have to overpay a little bit more than you want to.”