Braves acquire RHP Touki Toussaint & Bronson Arroyo for Filthy Phil Gosselin

[CyYoung31]

So, this is what thethe meant when he was talking about flipping fringe players for top 50 prospects.

thethe, I will never doubt you again.

[The Chosen One]

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp...=.jsp&sid=milb

Just off a little video, has a pretty nasty breaking ball.

I like his mechanics, follow through does worry me a little.

In Before Zito

[chop2chip]

So, this is what thethe meant when he was talking about flipping fringe players for top 50 prospects.

thethe, I will never doubt you again.

He was #71 Cy... Let's not get greedy

[nsacpi]

Seriously, why didn't Arizona shop this offer around? Surely they could have received something more than freaking Gosselin.

They have a fetish for Braves infielders: Prado, Ahmed, Drury, Gosselin. We should try to interest them in Ciriaco and Sean Kazmar.

[Hawk]

From Touki's Wikipedia:

Toussaint was considered one of the top prospects for the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft.[6] The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Toussaint in the first round, 16th overall, of the draft.[7] He signed on June 20. On June 20, 2015 he was traded to the Atlanta Braves along with Bronson Arroyo for Phil Gosselin.[8] After the trade, Dave Stewart was checked into a local Phoenix mental health facility.

[nsacpi]

So, this is what thethe meant when he was talking about flipping fringe players for top 50 prospects.

thethe, I will never doubt you again.

There is the small matter of $10M.

[Braves1976]

From Touki's Wikipedia:

Toussaint was considered one of the top prospects for the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft.[6] The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Toussaint in the first round, 16th overall, of the draft.[7] He signed on June 20. On June 20, 2015 he was traded to the Atlanta Braves along with Bronson Arroyo for Phil Gosselin.[8] After the trade, Dave Stewart was checked into a local Phoenix mental health facility.

Hahahaha.

[CrimsonCowboy]

Braves fans on this trade:


Diamondbacks fans on this trade

[zitothebrave]

They have a fetish for Braves infielders: Prado, Ahmed, Drury, Gosselin. We should try to interest them in Ciriaco and Sean Kazmar.

I bet they'd trade their entire farm and active roster for simmons. it would just be tron pitching and fielding.

[chop2chip]

I bet they'd trade their entire farm and active roster for simmons. it would just be tron pitching and fielding.

Simmons for Goldy

Freddie can play SS

[nsacpi]

Wonder what we can get for Grilli + 10M

[Braves1976]

Did the D'Backs have a handshake agreement with us that if Cahill blew up in our faces they owed us this type of deal later? :)

[CrimsonCowboy]

Kevin McAlpin ‏@KevinMcAlpin 7m7 minutes ago
Coppolella on Toussaint: "All the trades we've made, we've tried to get upside arms and we feel like he falls into that category"

[Hawk]

Jon Heyman
@JonHeymanCBS
braves pitching pickups last 8 months: miller, wisler, toussaint, fried, banuelos, sanchez, folty, vizcaino, many more

[CyYoung31]

There is the small matter of $10M.

Why can't you just appreciate the piss taking?

[GovClintonTyree]

Toussaint was ranked #71 by BA at the start of the year. Based on his performance this year, he'll hold steady or move up a little. This is a good trade for us. If you are absolutely committed to writing off 2015, it is a very good trade. Otherwise you could have used the funds to upgrade this year and possibly 2016 (depending how the accountants treat the buyout).

Two things. As I pissed and moaned about the wasted money of the Cahill deal, you and others pointed out repeatedly that we got a good draft pick in that deal. Since they went ahead and fired Cahill pretty quickly when he sucked, it seems clear that the Johns made the deal for the draft pick.

This is the same deal except we know who the draft pick is, consensus is we bent Stew over - certainly a promising arm. And I actually like the veteran arm acquired, he can help in September if we're in the race.

Arroyo is largely an innings eater, but he's also got a little streak of clutch. And grit, and leadership. Plus he plays a nice guitar.

So we're not spending our savings on current production, we're facilitating salary dumps and stockpiling arms.

[CrimsonCowboy]

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 2m2 minutes ago Chicago, IL
braves ass't gm coppolella: "the way john schuerholz built the braves was thru impact pitching ... it's the braves way."

[Dalyn]

[GovClintonTyree]

Jon Heyman
@JonHeymanCBS
braves pitching pickups last 8 months: miller, wisler, toussaint, fried, banuelos, sanchez, folty, vizcaino, many more

They've found the most impulsive morons they could exploit with Stewart and Preller. What fun.

"Three Johns: Building a franchise off the itchy trigger fingers of the dumb, drunk and desperate."

[Dalyn]