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The Braves are in the final stages of completing a one-year deal with Kurt Suzuki
Mark BowmanVerified account @mlbbowman 2m2 minutes ago
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The Braves are in the final stages of completing a one-year deal with Kurt Suzuki
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The Braves are in the final stages of completing a one-year deal with Kurt Suzuki
Please don't say it's a lot of money
Use your mod powers and throw this trash thread out of here.
I'm guessing 5-6M. I'd be ok with that.
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"I am your retribution."
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Rosenthal says $3.5 million. Hard to complain about that at all.
Good signing for a good value.
This may be an area where Snit being so popular with players may have value. Seems like a lot of veterans have felt this way.
$3.5M
This deal is A-OK
Now give Flowers $6M next year in exchange for another option year in 2019.
There was an interesting article in the AJC yesterday about him. Here is part of it.
It’s hard to fathom what’s prompted such exuberate results, but some credit goes to Braves hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, who altered Suzuki’s practice swing.
“I used to do a one-handed finish in batting practice, and I wouldn’t do it in the game, and I’d tell myself mentally in the game to do it, to let go with one hand, and I couldn’t do it,” Suzuki said. “So (Seitzer) said, ‘Why don’t you just practice the way you hit in the game?’ So I went and hit and I probably hit about 150 balls that day. I just tried to be loose and finish with two hands until it became a habit. I can’t let go now, it’s hard for me to let go with one hand. So it’s instilled now.”
Suzuki is a bargain at $1.5 million. But his contract is set to expire, and the lure of being closer to his family in California and home in Hawaii may be too powerful to forgo.
The incoming pay day will play a role as well. Alongside Jonathan Lucroy and Matt Wieters, Suzuki heads an otherwise scarce free agent market for catchers. Safe to assume he won’t have to wait through the dog days of January to find his next destination this time around.
“Yeah, I don’t see why not,” Suzuki said about re-signing. “It’s a great place. I like all the guys here and stuff. But there’s a lot of factors: family, my kids starting school (in California), proximity to home (Hawaii). There’s a lot of things you can factor in, but you know, this is a place I’ve grown to love.”
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
This will shut down the Lucroy lovers before it even gets started.
Knucksie (09-23-2017)
I have no complaints there. He's been pretty good here and he seems to enjoy it.
Amazing we've gotten 4.5 wins from our catchers this year.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
50PoundHead (09-23-2017), jpx7 (09-23-2017), Managuarantano's Volunteers (09-23-2017)
Locking him up now gives you another potentially valuable piece to trade during the first half next season.
Tough to be unhappy with this deal.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
I am not happy i am not upset but hopefully this mean we are not throwing money away and we are planning to go for someone like Yu Darvish to reunite with Ron Washington.
Yu would be Yuge
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Easy to like.