"With the Marlins making headline trades and other NL East foes doing deals, Braves general manager Frank Wren was asked if he missed being in the buzzy center of activity at the Winter Meetings.

A few years ago, he was a high roller at the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, courting big-ticket free agent pitchers such as A.J. Burnett before signing Derek Lowe.

Which was more fun, that situation or this year's?

"We prefer to have the players we have," Wren said. "We have a good club. I keep going back to this, and I'll stand by this: On Aug. 26 we had the fourth-best record in all of baseball. So our team didn't get bad in 30 days.

"Our team went through a bad streak for 30 days, but we have a good team.""