The Braves have quite a few items on their offseason to-do list.

There’s the enormous, three-year-running hole at shortstop, where the club will hopefully work out a deal of some kind with Ha-Seong Kim.

Lord knows the starting rotation could use a reliable, take-the-ball-every-fifth-day arm to bolster a good-but-injury-prone group.

And the bullpen is in search of a closer (and probably another high-leverage arm, too).

The one spot on the roster that hasn’t garnered much discussion in the early days of the offseason is designated hitter. When Alex Anthopoulos met with the media for an hour last week, the name ‘Marcell Ozuna’ was not said once, nor was the DH position really discussed. It is a sizeable opening for a club that has played Ozuna in that spot virtually every day since the DH

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