Originally Posted by
Enscheff
The Braves have 2 players on the BP list. Only 4 teams have less than the Braves.
The farm system is a bottom-10 system right now (and maybe worse, perhaps bottom-5). The Braves seriously need a few guys to figure it out, or it's going to get very ugly once the current young core gets too expensive and leaves town. A bottom-10 farm system coupled with a bottom-10 payroll....well, I don't need to explain how that is going to translate to (lack of) success.
Wren has 2 choices:
1. Try to win it all in the next 2 years, or
2. Trade away guys like JUp, Heyward, Minor, Freeman, etc when it becomes apparent they will not sign extensions.
Wren never, ever, sells high on a player, which is why he should have gone all in to get to the WS in the next 2 years. No addition to the rotation, and no fix for 2B means another season of falling short in 2014.