David O'Brien
Verified account @DOBrienATL
31m31 minutes ago
#Braves hired Dana Brown as VP, scouting. Move came 2 days after their fired scouting dir. Brian Bridges & scouting advisor Roy Clark. Brown has ties to Braves GM Anthopoulos; served past 9 years as a Blue Jays special asst. to GM. Was previously Expos/Nats scouting director.
nsacpi ---> south cack ---> Beanie ----> Harry
I believe in re-tooling and selling when it is time to sell. I don't really believe in burning things to the ground. I understand why the Braves did what they did and I think it was the most interesting thing they'd done in a long, long time.
But, I don't really want to see them get to that place again. I don't see it as the natural and inevitable and preferable end to a cycle.
nscapi and I both admire the Cardinals, I think. But I see them as a fairly aggressive organization when it comes to taking their shots at titles. I just think they rarely make very stupid decisions and they have an amazing ability to develop talent to keep their re-tooling periods from hitting rock bottom.
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Los Angeles will take on $3.6MM of Martin’s salary, with the Jays paying the other $16.4MM of what’s still due, per Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca
Get off my lawn!
@CraigMish
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Replying to @lenochs08
I think the Marlins will require Ian Anderson a possible deal w Braves. Perhaps Riley also and something else. Not sure. Marlins may need to send back another player to make it all work from what I understand. It’s fluid.
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I actually wouldn't mind giving Anderson away if that's what it takes. If it's Anderson, Riley, and Flowers I don't think it's question.
Forever Fredi
I’m one of the few Realmuto skeptics (in terms of the Braves’ resource-deployment), and I’ve come around on Riley over the past year, but even I would do Anderson, Riley, and a lower-tier prospect (or Flowers, obviously, but I don’t think Miami will really want or be satisfied with him as the third piece).
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
I am not as high on Anderson, so I am more willing to move him than Riley. Anderson is someone we should sell high on now IMO.
Mish also said that another player would potentially be coming to Atlanta, and he mentioned it being a reliever. I wouldn’t mind getting Steckenrider.
This mini-thread is hilarious. Mish is great
Riley plus Anderson plus filler makes sense for JTR, especially if Anderson’s low spin rate has him as a guy the Braves aren’t high on. Flowers also being in the deal would make some sense.
The additional player the Marlins are sending has to be off the MLB roster, as it wouldn’t make sense for them to send a prospect. While an Anderson/JTR combo would be pretty amazing, it would also cost more in terms of prospect capital. I’m guessing the additional player is someone the Marlins would like to dump for salary relief...maybe a BP arm
Maybe Conley? Maybe Straily?
Last edited by Enscheff; 01-11-2019 at 09:24 PM.