The Atlanta Braves have had one of the most eventual non-tender deadlines in all of baseball, declining to offer contracts to seven different players and trading another five.

To recap the moves of the last 24 hours:

Atlanta traded Michael Soroka, Nicky Lopez, Jared Shuster, Braden Shewmake, and minor-leaguer Riley Gowens to the Chicago White Sox for reliever Aaron Bummer. 

That gives you a net of three 40-man spots and a few million dollars in now-freed salary.

Atlanta traded reliever Nick Anderson to the Kansas City Royals for cash considerations, reported to be $500,000. 

Net one more 40-man spot and just over $2M.

Atlanta traded starter Kyle Wright to the Kansas City Royals for pitcher Jackson Kowar.

Net another $1.4M.

Atlanta non-tendered SEVEN different players – Yonny Chirinos, Kolby Allard, Penn Murfee, Angel Perdomo, Michael Tonkin, Chadwick Tromp, and Lucas Williams

Net seven more 40-man roster spots and about $5.5M (Chirinos was projected to make $2M, Tonkin and Allard both $1M, and league-minimum salaries for the rest.)

Atlanta freed up a lot of roster space and salary

The Atlanta Braves’ 40-man roster, as confirmed by the team, now sits at 30 players.

And after having moved twelve major leaguers (plus two prospects) out of the organization today/last night, Alex Anthopoulos has created around $9M in now-freed salary.

(Several of those players non-tendered had more than $1M coming in arbitration, with Chirinos projected to make $2M, and both Allard and Tonkin making $1M. When you combine that savings with the now-traded Michael Soroka ($3M), Nicky Lopez ($3.9M), Kyle Wright ($1.4M), and Nick Anderson ($1.6M), the Braves have cleared over $14M in salary space for 2024 with these moves. The acquisition of Aaron Bummer from the Chicago White Sox adds $5.5M to the ledger for 2024, but you’re still net $8.5M.)