The Braves acquired Kemp late last season in a trade with the San Diego Padres for Hector Olivera. Since then, he’s batted .305 with 20 home runs in 95 games, and is batting .337 with 8 homers and 27 RBI so far this season.

He’s still owed $21.5 million over each of the final two years of his contract, and the Braves are paying $18 million annually for 2017-2019 when the $10.5M total they got from Padres in the deal is subtracted. Nightengale suggests the Braves might have to absorb a significant amount of that money in order to move him.