'Bad contracts' to limit Braves' free-agent options

[Hawksquawk]

John Hart has spent the first two days of this week's General Managers Meetings speaking optimistically about B.J. Upton's future in Atlanta. At the same time, the longtime baseball executive is fully aware that the club's limited financial flexibility has a lot to do with Upton ($14.45 million) accounting for a big chunk of the Braves' projected payroll.

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