The Braves have some holes to fill this offseason with the retirement of Chipper Jones and the pending free agency of Michael Bourn.

"I feel like this is a more focused offseason," general manager Frank Wren said. "I'm looking forward to it, because I think there's a narrower focus with what we need. We have a lot of good young players in place. We've got to determine what we do it center field, and that kind of couples with leadoff. Center field/leadoff. And then how we replace Chipper. And beyond that, our club's pretty solid. So it's a fairly narrow focus.

"I think the exciting part for all of us is we've got a dynamic young core. We've got three young guys that were in that lineup [for the Wild Card game] that have a chance to be All-Star players and have a chance to be leaders of this team for a long time. And the bullpen's intact, our starting rotation's intact. There's a lot of things that are real positive going into next year. And guys are going to get better. We've got a very young pitching staff, and we've got some dynamic young pitchers that are just on the horizon who have a chance to be good.

"I'm very optimistic about where we sit as a franchise, with the thought of adding a couple of key pieces."