I’d be good with loading up the pen with those 2.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/260157...b-free-agents/
I’d be good with loading up the pen with those 2.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/260157...b-free-agents/
If we are in fact looking at a couple of late inning relievers I'm hoping the fact Melancon and Chapman both underperformed this past season bring the AAV back down.
Would prefer Jake McGee to Swarzak personally, but that's me. Also don't see any way Frazier takes a 1 or 2 year deal, but if he'd consider coming in for one season and gambling on himself hitting 40 bombs in SunTrust, I'd do what I could to be the highest bidder for him to buy another full season to better find out what you've got in Riley.
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?
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?
The Reds did not make a QO to Cozart.
If he's willing to move to 3B that could be an interesting signing. I'm one who thinks Swanson is going to be fine and have a good season next year, but if for any reason we are worried it'd be a good insurance policy as well.
Thinking Freeman is traded. Minter and Lindgren should be 2 lefites in the pen, but both have had injury concerns. LH relievers alaways come in handy even in trades. No reason to pigeonhole yourself like that.
No guarantee either Fried or Newk would be in the pen. If Fried were to move to the pen it would be more if a swingman working multiple innings.
If Freeman is traded I agree signing a LHer makes more sense. I also agree now would be a good time to sell high on him, but I can't fathom the Braves doing that. They think they are going to compete in 2018.
I would be willing to bet any amount of anything one of Fried or Newk ends up in the BP by the end of this season. One of Soroka, Allard or Wright will push them out of the rotation.
Last edited by Enscheff; 11-06-2017 at 03:30 PM.
NYCBrave (11-06-2017)
Folks are advocating the Braves spending around $30M per year in the BP. For a team with a $100M-$120M payroll and no real shot at postseason play, that seems...unlikely to end well.